This was comedian/actress Carol Burnett's tribute to her multi-talented daughter Carrie Hamilton who died of lung cancer at age 38. The book is part biography, part memoir, part collection of letters and emails between mother and daughter as Carrie took a trip across the U.S. while writing a novel which was never completed. The play that Burnett and her daughter wrote was finished and produced after Carrie's death. Hamilton was a performer, producer, playwright, singer, poet, and songwriter. The last quarter of the book is Hamilton's unfinished book "Sunrise in Memphis." Hamilton asked her mother to finish it for her but Carol Burnett was never able to because as she told her daughter "I'm not sure I could write what you were aiming for."
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