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THE CURIOUS CALLING OF LEONARD BUSH
By: Susan Gregg Gilmore
Blair
September 2025
On Sale: August 26, 2025
Featuring: Leonard Bush; Emmett; Azalea
300 pages
ISBN: 1958888559
EAN: 9781958888551
Kindle: B0DJZ8ZVN7
Hardcover / e-Book
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Coming of Age | Women's Fiction Southern
Young Leonard Bush buries his lost leg and saves his whole East Tennessee town in this winsome and miracle-making novel. When twelve-year-old Leonard Bush loses his leg in a freak accident, he decides to give his leg a proper burial in the hilltop cemetery of his East Tennessee town. This event somehow sets off a chain of miraculous and catastrophic events—upending the lives of Leonard’s rigidly God-fearing mother, June; his deeply conflicted father, Emmett; and his best friend, Azalea, and her mother, Rose, who is also the town prostitute. While the local Baptist minister passes judgment on events and promises dire consequences, the people of this small community on the banks of Big Sugar move together toward awakening. Susan Gilmore’s love of storytelling flows naturally from her Tennessee roots. She’s the daughter of a revival preacher’s son, brought up on the land and streams that populate this novel that is, as Appalachian novelist Lee Smith says, a “homespun Pilgrim’s Progress.”
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