“Some novels are so powerful, so magical in their sweep and voice, that they leave you feeling drugged. Close the pages and the people in them keep right on talking to you. Amy Greene’s debut novel, Bloodroot, set in the bone-poor hollows of the eastern Tennessee mountains, is such a book I found myself close to tears at several turns—devastated along with the characters by another crazed /5(). Bloodroot is the best Appalachian novel to come out of the region in a long, long while, ushering in a fresh new voice that speaks for a whole generation." “Haunting Woven into [ Bloodroot] is mountain magic, family history, rural poverty and each generation’s effort to make things better for their children. · By Lisa Fugard. Don’t be misled by the dreamy pastoral image on the dust jacket of Amy Greene’s first novel. “Bloodroot” takes place in Appalachia, and, yes, Greene lovingly describes its Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins.
Bloodroot by Amy Greene "Amy Greene's Bloodroot can stand proudly beside Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle, two works which likewise examine the isometric push of the human spirit against the immovable forces of tyranny and www.doorway.ru's novel has everything I savor in fiction."—Wally Lamb. Named for a flower whose blood-red sap possesses. By AMY GREENE. Feb. 12, ; I've heard bloodroot's good for curing croup, and it's even been used for treating certain kinds of cancer. Some of it we kept for ourselves, to use on poison ivy. BLOODROOT Amy Greene, Alfred A. Knopf, Dutton, March , $,HC,pp, Byrdie Lamb was said to be one of those witches from Chickweed Holler, one who as they say had "the touch". She gave birth to five children and buried four.
Bloodroot by Amy Greene “Amy Greene’s Bloodroot can stand proudly beside Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and Jeannette Walls’s The Glass Castle, two works which likewise examine the isometric push of the human spirit against the immovable forces of tyranny and poverty. Greene’s novel has everything I savor in fiction.“—Wally Lamb. By Lisa Fugard. Don’t be misled by the dreamy pastoral image on the dust jacket of Amy Greene’s first novel. “Bloodroot” takes place in Appalachia, and, yes, Greene lovingly describes its. By AMY GREENE. Feb. 12, ; I've heard bloodroot's good for curing croup, and it's even been used for treating certain kinds of cancer. Some of it we kept for ourselves, to use on poison ivy.
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