A Touch of Innocence

These extraordinarily graphic and honest memoirs recount the early years of Miss Dunham's life - an eventful, disturbed, and peculiarly intense period. By turns, shocking, humorous, tender and grotesque, this is both a portrait of a racially mixed family rooted in the American Middle West and a remarkably objective reminiscence of the girl "Katherine," who grew up to be the internationally noted dancer and choreographer.