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March 2010
On Sale: March 16, 2010
Featuring: Annalaura Welles; Alexander McNaughton
288 pages
ISBN: 0982555067
EAN: 9780982555064
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Fiction Family Life | Historical
In Francine Howard’s stunning debut, Page from a Tennessee
Journal, rural Tennessee of 1913 remains an unforgiving
place for two couples--one black, the other white--who
stumble against the rigid boundaries separating their worlds. When white farmer Alexander McNaughton falters into
forbidden love with Annalaura Welles he discovers that he
has much more to fear than the wrath of her returning
gun-toting husband. Alexander’s wife – flinty and pragmatic Eula Mae –- wages
her own battle against the stoicism demanded of white women
of her time and social standing. Former sharecropper John Welles, flush with cash from his
year's sojourn working the poker tables in "the second best
colored whorehouse in all of Nashville," wrestles with his
devils as he struggles to assign blame for his wife's
relationship with a white man. The convergence of the lives and choices of these
fascinating characters– made from fear, pride,
determination, spite, nobility and revenge leads to a
heart-pounding and heartbreaking climax that feels at once
original, audacious and inevitable.
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