Scrub Oak is a story of resilience and survival. Georgia Carter Smith wrote Scrub Oak while in her seventies. Although her hand-written notes were found scattered throughout her home after her passing, her stories had been shared and told many times over. Scrub Oak is a work of fiction that started with the real- life memories of Georgia Carter Smith, which will engulf the readers in a swarm of emotions and fill the hearts of the readers with hope.

Georgia Carter Smith was born in 1926, one of five children to farmers in Oklahoma. The Great Depression hit them hard and after their father died, the youngest children in the family were left in the care of the Tulsa Home for Children. After a sketchy adoption and subsequent return to the orphanage, Georgia became homeless at the age of twelve, before finding her “forever home” and family as a teenager. Georgia always believed that her mother would return for her and continued to search for her throughout her life. The lessons she learned along the way will forever capture your heart and take you back to times that many of us cannot imagine living.