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Store Events - February 13, 7:00 p.m.
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Time: Saturday, February 13, 2010 7:00 p.m.
Location: Malaprop's
Title of Event: Amy Greene
East Tennessee author Amy Greene reads from her debut novel, Bloodroot, a story of family, madness, and the legacy of place. Ron Rash, author of Serena, says, “Amy Greene is a born storyteller who depicts the voices and folkways of Appalachia with both eloquence and verisimilitude. A striking debut by a gifted author.”
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Bloodroot
by
Greene, Amy
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$24.95
Published: Knopf Publishing Group, 2010
Inventory Status: On Our Shelves Now
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Named for a flower whose blood-red sap possesses the power both to heal and poison, "Bloodroot "is a stunning fiction debut about the legacies--of magic and madness, faith and secrets, passion and loss--that haunt one family across the generations, from the Great Depression to today.
The novel is told in a kaleidoscope of seamlessly woven voices and centers around an incendiary romance that consumes everyone in its path: Myra Lamb, a wild young girl with mysterious, haint blue eyes who grows up on remote Bloodroot Mountain; her grandmother Byrdie Lamb, who protects Myra fiercely and passes down "the touch" that bewitches people and animals alike; the neighbor boy who longs for Myra yet is destined never to have her; the twin children Myra is forced to abandon but who never forget their mother's deep love; and John Odom, the man who tries to tame Myra and meets with shocking, violent disaster. Against the backdrop of a beautiful but often unforgiving country, these lives come together--only to be torn apart--as a dark, riveting mystery unfolds.
With grace and unflinching verisimilitude, Amy Greene brings her native Appalachia--and the faith and fury of its people--to rich and vivid life. Here is a spellbinding tour de force that announces a dazzlingly fresh, natural-born storyteller in our midst.
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