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Wild card quilt : taking a chance on home / Janisse Ray.

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Request in advance	F294.B39 R398 2003	Off-site

Description

xii, 308 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"She comes home in the heat of August to her grandmother's pine house, built in the 1920s but not lived in for years. She comes home to the beauty of longleaf pine forests, the ghosts of her ancestors, and the constant presence of Uncle Percy, who lives in the trailer across the yard from the house.
"When she was thirty-five years old, seventeen years after she had left home "for good," Janisse Ray pointed her truck away from Montana, toward the small Southern town where she was born. Self-sufficient and independent, she nonetheless craved a life built on "land, history, and blood."".
She comes back to renewed skirmishes with her father over the fate of her soul, to the improbability of finding a date on a Friday night, to a district about to shut down the school where her son will be enrolled." "Rediscovering the nearly lost pleasures of country life - a Thanksgiving syrup-boil, alligator trappers, quilting - she wonders if real connections can be built between herself and her neighbors, whether she can build a sustainable life for herself and her son."--BOOK JACKET.

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ISBN

1571312722 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

2002152810

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries