Gola Cousins

My Real Struggle in Pheba MS Gola Cousins

My Real Struggle in Pheba MS is a fast-paced story of a young girl struggling to grow up in a small southern town in Mississippi called Pheba. Though Pheba is a country town in a state that many condemn as being the heartland of racism, this is not a story of racism; it is a story of survival. Born during an era when large families were an attribute of survival, and the female species were considered prey, Gola Jones Russell Cousins was the tenth child born to a family of ten. The structured life of her family was forever change when at the tender age of four she lost her father. This lost was replaced by a community of friends, some whose motivation was to take advantage of a naive child growing up without a father. This is a story that is often lived but rarely told.