The Song of the Blue Bottle Tree
India Hayford
* Affiliatelinks/Werbelinks
Links auf reinlesen.de sind sogenannte Affiliate-Links. Wenn du auf so einen Affiliate-Link klickst und über diesen Link einkaufst, bekommt reinlesen.de von dem betreffenden Online-Shop oder Anbieter eine Provision. Für dich verändert sich der Preis nicht.
Belletristik / Hauptwerk vor 1945
Beschreibung
Disguised by years in exile and a name she found on a gravestone, an unconventional young woman returns to her childhood home in rural 1967 Arkansas in this hauntingly visceral Southern tale of desperate choices, found family, folk magic and noisy ghosts.
Genevieve Charbonneau talks to ghosts and has a special relationship with rattlesnakes. In her travels, she’s wandered throughout the South, working in a Louisiana circus and as a hootchy kootch dancer 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.
Disguised by years in exile and a name she found on a gravestone, Genevieve intends only to visit briefly and leave. But a chance meeting with a guilt-ridden young Vietnam veteran draws her into more unexpected connections. Her hard-won independence inspires an abused woman and her daughters to find their own path to empowerment, and a hypocritical preacher is brought to a long-deserved reckoning.
With undertones of magical realism and dark humor, here is a powerful story of discovering—and sometimes rediscovering—one’s place in the world, and the unexpected challenges and gifts that present themselves along the way.
Kundenbewertungen
Where the Crawdads Sing, circus, alabama, American South, Ellen Marie Wiseman, family secrets, 1960s fiction, Florence Adler Swims Forever, southern fiction, Arkansas, Amanda Skenandore, southern literary, deep south, fortune teller, In the Unlikely Event, southern literature, Kim Michele Richardson, exotic dancer, Donna Everhart, Vietnam, Vietnam war, snake charmer, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, emily carpenter, faith healer, magical realism, Southern gothic, vietnam veteran, women’s fiction, women’s southern fiction, snakes, women’s literary fiction, The Book Woman's Daughter, preacher