I have been trying to find this one for my Mom for years.

I am sorry to say I have no title or author or publishers to help out. You can see how tough that makes it.

Here is what I know and what she recalls.

She bought it as a paperback in the mid to late 80s

She thinks she remembers it was set in either the great depression or late 40s-ish, I am not sure about if that is exact because the character in the story is very poor and lives in the mid west or mid south west.

A woman lives on a run down section or property, maybe a farm.  It is surrounded by junk,  junk cars and trucks etc.  She is afraid of the dark and always has to leave a light on.  She lives there with her son and one day a strange man shows up and he helps clean up her land, gets an old vehicle or tractor running and hooks up the electric power for her. My Mom says she thinks she vaguely recalls the man may have been an escaped prisoner or on the run from the law or from something or some reason.

She read the book long ago and loved it, but the years do what the years do and she has long lost it in moving and life in general.  Being in her late 60s doesn’t help the memory much either I’m afraid.

If you could help It would be amazing