Publisher's Synopsis
Chris is a wonderfully entertaining true story told with vivid imagery in easy, conversational style. You meet a remarkable American woman whose experiences and deepest thoughts and feelings from childhood to adulthood are shared with you. Chris is a mother and caring friend who overcomes life-altering hardships and setbacks and who courageously faces danger to help others. She defies stereotyping and demolishes gender bias. She is tender, tough, humble, lovable and brave. Her talents are many, her fun-loving nature irresistible. She also happens to be a highly respected expert in the all-male automobile industry winning her several stories in the newspaper and the admiration of men and women alike. Chris and her 20th Century world will live in your imagination, offering generous helpings of humor, sadness, fear, romance, tragedy and triumph amid a backdrop of momentous historical and cultural change in America.