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Also by Kim Michele Richardson:

The Book Woman's Daughter, May 2022
Paperback / e-Book / audiobook
Liar's Bench, December 2021
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GodPretty in the Tobacco Field, April 2021
Trade Size / e-Book
The Book Woman Of Troublesome Creek, May 2019
Paperback / e-Book
The Sisters of Glass Ferry, December 2017
Trade Size / e-Book

GodPretty in the Tobacco Field
Kim Michele Richardson

Kensington
April 2021
On Sale: March 30, 2021
288 pages
ISBN: 1496734211
EAN: 9781496734211
Kindle: B0138NHFSU
Trade Size / e-Book
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Coming of Age | Historical

From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, an atmospheric, tender tale of love and loss set in 1969 rural Kentucky. There, a young girl named RubyLyn is subjected to grueling labor by her God-fearing uncle, and strives to find a ray of hope in her poverty-stricken town through her own tobacco patch, a forbidden first love, and her home-made paper fortune tellers.

Nameless, Kentucky in 1969 is a hardscrabble community where jobs are few and poverty is a simple fact--just like the hot Appalachian breeze or the pests that can wipe out a tobacco field in days. RubyLyn Bishop is luckier than some. Her God-fearing uncle, Gunnar, has a short fuse and high expectations, but he's given her a good home ever since she was orphaned at the age of five. But now, a month shy of her sixteenth birthday, RubyLyn itches for more.

Maybe it's something to do with the paper fortune tellers she's been making for townsfolk, each covered with beautifully wrought, prophetic drawings. Or perhaps it's because of Rainey Ford, an African-American neighbor who works alongside her in the tobacco field whom she has a kinship with, despite her uncle's worrisome shadow and the town's disapproval. RubyLyn's predictions are just wishful thinking, not magic at all, but through them she's imagining life as it could be, away from the prejudice and hardship that ripple through Nameless.

Atmospheric, poignant, and searingly honest, GodPretty in the Tobacco Field follows RubyLyn through the course of one blazing summer, as heartbreaking revelations and life-changing decisions propel her toward a future her fortune tellers never predicted.

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