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Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall

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Also by Susan Crandall:

The Myth of Perpetual Summer, June 2018
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The Flying Circus, July 2015
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Whistling Past the Graveyard, July 2013
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Sleep No More, January 2010
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Seeing Red, February 2009
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Pitch Black, June 2008
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A Kiss in Winter, January 2007
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On Blue Falls Pond, January 2006
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Promises to Keep, March 2005
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Magnolia Skies, August 2004
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Back Roads, June 2003
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Whistling Past the Graveyard
Susan Crandall

Gallery Books
July 2013
On Sale: July 2, 2013
320 pages
ISBN: 1476707723
EAN: 9781476707723
Kindle: B009K54QJ2
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction Family Life

In the summer of 1963, nine-year-old spitfire Starla Claudelle runs away from her strict grandmother’s Mississippi home. Starla hasn’t seen her momma since she was three—that’s when Lulu left for Nashville to become a famous singer. Starla’s daddy works on an oil rig in the Gulf, so Mamie, with her tsk-tsk sounds and her bitter refrain of “Lord, give me strength,” is the nearest thing to family Starla has. After being put on restriction yet again for her sassy mouth, Starla is caught sneaking out for the Fourth of July parade. She fears Mamie will make good on her threat to send Starla to reform school, so Starla walks to the outskirts of town, and just keeps walking. . . . If she can get to Nashville and find her momma, then all that she promised will come true: Lulu will be a star. Daddy will come to live in Nashville, too. And her family will be whole and perfect. Walking a lonely country road, Starla accepts a ride from Eula, a black woman traveling alone with a white baby. The trio embarks on a road trip that will change Starla’s life forever. She sees for the first time life as it really is—as she reaches for a dream of how it could one day be.

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