historical fiction

Item Description

Emma Garnet Tate Lowell, a plantation owner's daughter, grows up in a privileged lifestyle, but it's not all roses. Her family's prosperity is linked to the institution of slavery, and Clarice, a close and trusted family servant, exposes Emma to the truth and history of their plantation and how it brutally affected the slave population.

Her father, Samuel P. Tate, has an aggressive and overpowering persona that intimidates many people -- including Emma. But she refuses to conform to his ideals and marries a prominent young doctor. Together they face the horrors of the Civil War, nursing wounded soldiers, as Emma begins the long journey toward her own recovery from the terrible forces that shaped her father's life.

"A master storyteller...Margaret Mitchell's blunderbuss epic...can't hold a sweet-potato candle to these vivid pages." -- San Francisco Chronicle

"Horace said that our stories should aim to instruct and delight...Kaye Gibbons has achieved both on every page." -- Charles Frazier, author of "Cold Mountain"

"A novel that will have been worth the wait for Gibbon's fans or anyone else with a passionate interest in the Civil War." -- Portland Oregonian

"Haunting...a rare jewel...Kaye Gibbons has gone from being a wonderful, fascinating novelist to a national treasure." -- San Antonio Express-News

"An occasion for even more accolades."-- "Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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Published 2005. 304 pages. 5.31 x 0.68 x 8"  Paperback

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