The Song of the Blue Bottle Tree (eBook)

India Hayford (Autor)

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2025
352 Seiten
A John Scognamiglio Book (Verlag)
978-1-4967-5313-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Disguised by a name she found on a tombstone and accompanying a Vietnam vet she met in a graveyard, an unconventional young snake-handler who talks to the dead returns to the ghosts of her childhood home in 1967 Arkansas... Readers of Delia Owens, Barbara Kingsolver, Kelly Mustian, and Quinn Connor will be captivated by this haunting Southern debut about found family, folk magic, the long shadow of trauma, the salvation of human connection, and the transcendent beauty of nature.';India Hayford's riveting debut is an exploration of tangled familial bonds, loss, love and the redemption of fierce womanhood. Captivating storytelling that is utterly unforgettable.'Kim Michele Richardson,New York Timesbestselling author of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek series Genevieve Charbonneau talks to ghosts and has a special relationship with rattlesnakes. In her travels, she's wandered throughout the South, escaping a mental hospital in Alabama, working for a Louisiana circus, and dancing at a hoochy-kootch in Texas. Now for the first time in a decade, she's allowed her winding path to bring her to the site of her grandmother's Arkansas farmhouse, a place hallowed in her memory. She intends only to visit briefly to pay respects to her buried loved ones and leave. But a chance meeting with a haunted young Vietnam vet reconnects her with the remnants of a family she thought long gone, and their union becomes a catalyst for change and salvation. An abused woman and her daughters develop the courage to fight back, a ghost finds the path away from life, and a sanctimonious predator becomes the prey. In the process, Genevieve must choose between her longing for meaningful connection after years as an outsider and her equally excruciating impulse to run. Written by a naturalist and set on the land where her family roots stretch back two centuries,The Song of the Blue Bottle Treeis a haunting story about letting go and the things we leave behind, the power of names, and the ties that bind. It is both harrowing and triumphant, a visceral Southern debut as otherworldly and beautiful as it is unflinching and wry. *A Publishers Marketplace BUZZ BOOKS Selection*

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.3.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Schlagworte: 1960s fiction • Alabama • Amanda Skenandore • American South • Arkansas • Circus • Deep South • Donna Everhart • Ellen Marie Wiseman • emily carpenter • exotic dancer • faith healer • family secrets • Florence Adler Swims Forever • fortune teller • In the Unlikely Event • kim michele richardson • magical realism • Preacher • Snake charmer • Snakes • Southern fiction • Southern Gothic • southern literary • Southern Literature • The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek • The Book Woman's Daughter • Vietnam • Vietnam veteran • Vietnam War • where the crawdads sing • Women’s Fiction • women’s literary fiction • women’s southern fiction
• ISBN-10: 1-4967-5313-5 / 1496753135
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4967-5313-7 / 9781496753137