India Hayford

The Song of the Blue Bottle Tree (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Disguised by years in exile and a name she found on a gravestone, an unconventional young woman returns to her childhood home in rural 1967 Arkansas in this hauntingly visceral Southern tale of desperate choices, found family, folk magic and noisy ghosts. Genevieve Charbonneau talks to ghosts and has a special relationship with rattlesnakes. In her travels, she's wandered throughout the South, working in a Louisiana circus and as a hootchy kootch dancer in Texas. Now for the first time in a decade, she's allowed her winding path to bring her to the site of her grandmother's Arkansas farmhouse, a place hallowed in her memory. Disguised by years in exile and a name she found on a gravestone, Genevieve intends only to visit briefly and leave. But a chance meeting with a guilt-ridden young Vietnam veteran draws her into more unexpected connections. Her hard-won independence inspires an abused woman and her daughters to find their own path to empowerment, and a hypocritical preacher is brought to a long-deserved reckoning. With undertones of magical realism and dark humor, here is a powerful story of discovering-and sometimes rediscovering-one's place in the world, and the unexpected challenges and gifts that present themselves along the way.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of California Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496753137
• Artikelnr.: 72257249

Autorenporträt

India Hayford is a naturalist, historical reenactor, teacher, and artist. Her short stories and feature articles have appeared in various regional and national publications, including Threads and Needle Arts. For the last eight years she has written The Howl, a quarterly wildlife newsletter with national distribution. She is the author of two books on embroidery design and is writing a third about Yemenite Jewish embroidery. Her short story collection, Howl, won the 2023 Neltje Blanchan Memorial Writing Award for best work inspired by nature. India lives in Wyoming with her husband, Roy.