![]() ![]() Gertrude is trying simply to keep her four young girls alive, given their grinding poverty, and away from their father and, in the case of the older daughters, from lusty boys. ![]() Retta still grieves for her only child, a beloved girl who died at age 8. Annie has been estranged for 15 years from her two adult daughters, for reasons only slowly revealed. The trio comes together in the small town of Branchville one thing they have in common is fraught relationships with their daughters. ![]() Spera’s debut weaves together the stories of Annie Coles, matriarch of a white, plantation-owning family Oretta Bootles, Annie’s black housekeeper and Gertrude Pardee, a young white woman who has fled a brutally abusive husband and their isolated, ramshackle home. In South Carolina in the 1920s, three memorable women struggle with challenging family relationships amid the depths of the Depression in this impressive first novel. ![]()
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