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The Ballad of Laurel Springs

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Description:From the internationally best-selling author of 'The Atomic City Girls', a provocative new novel about multiple generations of women in one East Tennessee family haunted by violence and redeemed by their rich inheritance of folk music.Ten-year-old Grace is in search of a subject for her fifth-grade history project when she learns that her four-times-great-grandfather once stabbed his lover to death. His grisly act was memorialized in a murder ballad, her aunt tells her, so it must be true. But the lessons of that revelation - to be careful of men, and desire - are not just Grace’s to learn. Her family’s tangled past is part of a dark legacy in which the lives of generations of women are affected by the violence immortalized in folksongs like “Knoxville Girl” and “Pretty Polly” reminding them always to know their place - or risk the wages of sin.Janet Beard’s stirring novel, informed by her love of these haunting ballads, vividly imagines these women, defined by the secrets they keep, the surprises they uncover, and the lurking sense of menace that follows them throughout their lives. With the same rich sense of place as 'Bloodroot' or 'Serena', 'THE BALLAD OF LAUREL SPRINGS is an unforgettable portrait of women fighting to make a safe place in the world for themselves and the people they love.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Ballad of Laurel Springs. To get started finding The Ballad of Laurel Springs, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 1

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio and Blackstone Publishing

Release: 2021

ISBN: 1797131435

Description: From the internationally best-selling author of 'The Atomic City Girls', a provocative new novel about multiple generations of women in one East Tennessee family haunted by violence and redeemed by their rich inheritance of folk music.Ten-year-old Grace is in search of a subject for her fifth-grade history project when she learns that her four-times-great-grandfather once stabbed his lover to death. His grisly act was memorialized in a murder ballad, her aunt tells her, so it must be true. But the lessons of that revelation - to be careful of men, and desire - are not just Grace’s to learn. Her family’s tangled past is part of a dark legacy in which the lives of generations of women are affected by the violence immortalized in folksongs like “Knoxville Girl” and “Pretty Polly” reminding them always to know their place - or risk the wages of sin.Janet Beard’s stirring novel, informed by her love of these haunting ballads, vividly imagines these women, defined by the secrets they keep, the surprises they uncover, and the lurking sense of menace that follows them throughout their lives. With the same rich sense of place as 'Bloodroot' or 'Serena', 'THE BALLAD OF LAUREL SPRINGS is an unforgettable portrait of women fighting to make a safe place in the world for themselves and the people they love.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Ballad of Laurel Springs. To get started finding The Ballad of Laurel Springs, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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