Finding Day's Bottom
(2006)
Fiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Lerner Publishing Group : Made available through hoopla, 2006
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780822571971 (electronic bk.) MWT11774330, 0822571978 (electronic bk.) 11774330
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
After eleven-year-old Jane-Ery loses her father in a sawmill accident, Grandpap comes down from Salter's Mountain to live with her and her mother. To Jane-Ery's surprise, Grandpap's funny ways and strange stories bring her a comfort she never expected. He tells her about Day's Bottom, a place of light and wonderment" that has anything a body could ever want." Jane-Ery wonders: Could she find Daddy there? So begins her search for a new kind of understanding of her father's death. This gently told, beautifully rendered novel brings to life a time and place readers will come to love, Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains in the 1950's
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