A box of moldy documents that survived Hurricane Katrina, discovered in her mother-in-law’s attic, turned out to hold unexpected treasure for Whitney Stewart.
Windows and mirrors seem to shapeshift as sixth-grader Merci lives wrapped both in her own family traditions and in the commonalities of middle school.
Death has come to Aunt Dee some 85 years after it was first rumored. This past Sunday, my cousin’s text read, “Aunt Dee has gone to be with Uncle Charles.”
Start with an Appalachian story, set it in the late 1920s, add a preacher who pitches a tent and starts his own church called The Church of Consecrated Heaven and Satan’s on the Run.
I don’t take great stock in omens and superstition, but when I hear the same thought repeated in divergent places and with different voices, it gets my attention.
Curious as to what we might have in common, I was glad when my Mississippi Writers Book Group chose The Writing Life by Ellen Gilchrist as our next book.
My mother taught me that it was impolite, but my mother-in-law got much entertainment out of her party line telephone and was only slightly chagrined when she was caught eavesdropping.
If you ever loved A Wrinkle in Timeor any of its book siblings, if you love a lonely-child-fulfills-her-dreams story, or if you’d like a peek at how granddaughters see a famous grandmother, I have just the book for you!