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Algonquin Books
September 2006
On Sale: September 1, 2006
416 pages
ISBN: 1565124529
EAN: 9781565124523
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Molly Petree, orphaned by the Civil War, is by her own
definition "a spitfire and a burden. I do not care. My
family is a dead family, and this is not my home, for I am a
refugee girl." Raised in the ruins of a once prosperous plantation on Agate
Hill in North Carolina, she's a refugee who has no interest
in self-pity. To document her headstrong life, she collects
its artifacts—her lifelong diaries, letters, poems, songs,
newspaper clippings, court records, marbles, rocks, dolls,
bones (some human, some not). When a mysterious benefactor appears out of her father's
past to rescue her, teenaged Molly Petree never looks back.
Taking what she is offered, she saves herself and then risks
everything to hold true to her nature and to true love. She
casts aside two prosperous, well-born suitors to marry a
dashing—and philandering—mountaineer only to be accused of
his murder. The end of Molly Petree's story is as
unpredictable and as passionate as her own wide-open heart. Spanning half a century, Lee Smith's portrait of a fiery
Southern woman recalls the South from Reconstruction to the
Roaring Twenties—and, in the process, gives us Molly Petree,
living and breathing, gripping the reader's arm as the story
unfolds.
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