GodPretty in the Tobacco Field
eAudio - 2016
Atmospheric and searingly honest, GodPretty in the Tobacco Field is Coal Miner's Daughter meets Winter's Bone in a gripping tale of tender love and lossNameless, 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. Yet now, a month shy of her sixteenth birthday, RubyLyn itches for more. Maybe it's something to do with the paper fortune-tellers RubyLyn has been making for townsfolk, each covered with beau...tifully wrought, prophetic drawings. Or perhaps it's because of Rainey Ford, an African American neighbor who works alongside her in the tobacco field, and with whom she has a kinship, despite her uncle's worrisome shadow and the town's disapproval. RubyLyn's...
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- Published
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Blackstone Publishing
- Language
- English
- Main Authors
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- Online Access
- OverDrive Resource Page
- Format
- MP3 audiobook, OverDrive Listen audiobook
| MP3 audiobook | |
|---|---|
| File Size | 236 GB |
| Parts | 7 |
| ISBN | 9781504709330 |
| Release Date | 4/26/2016 |
| OverDrive Listen audiobook | |
| File Size | 236 GB |
| ISBN | 9781504709330 |
| Release Date | 4/26/2016 |
