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    612-822-4611

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My Old True Love

My Old True Love

Adams, Sheila Kay

Paperback

General FictionHistorical Fiction

ISBN10: 1616207531
ISBN13: 9781616207533
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: Nov 1 2016
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A coming-of-age novel that follows a young Appalachian woman as she navigates love, family traditions, and the tensions between preserving her mountain heritage and pursuing her own future. Deeply satisfying storytelling propelled by the desires of full-bodied, prickly characters set against a landscape rendered in all its beauty and harshness. --Kirkus Reviews

The Stantons and the Nortons were family in the truest, oldest sense: an extended network of kin stretching across the Appalachian mountains, their ties to the land as strong as their ties to one another. So when Larkin Stanton is left parentless at birth in the 1840s, he is taken in by his cousin Arty Norton, and true to the family way, Arty teaches Larkin the old Appalachian ballads the family has sung together for centuries. But when Arty's brother, Hackley, leaves to fight in the Civil War, Larkin finds himself drawn to Hackley's wife, the woman who has held Larkin's heart for years. What Larkin does about that love defies all he has learned about family and loyalty--and reminds us that those mournful mountain ballads didn't come just from the imagination but from the imperfections of the heart.

Something ancient and wonderful resides in Sheila Kay Adams's heart, and we are lucky indeed that she has chosen to share this knowledge with us through the words of this fine, beautifully wrought novel. --*Silas House, author of Clay's Quilt and A Parchment of Leaves

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