I just could not put this book down! I read the whole thing from start to finish in one sitting. This book speaks true about so many things, most importantly love, and its consequences. I highly recommend it!
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this is, quite simply, a terrific novel. the book is beautifully written and fun to read. highly engaging plot, steeped in a very romantic southern setting. the characters are well-developed and diverse. the narrative style is very clean and unpretentious. yet this is a very deep book, w/ lots of nuance and subtlety below the surface. this book would be a great choice for book clubs and contemporary literature courses...
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Yancey develops his characters beautifully in this historic Southern tale. This future classic will keep readers entrigued from beginning to end. Anyone who starts this book will find it truly difficult to forgo reading the rest of it. The novel is fraught with rough characters and mundane sorrows. This author's future success is indubitable.
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The summer of 1960 in Homeland, Florida would be hot just based on climate, but for several of the townsfolk, relationships turn even more heated. Seven-year-old Shiny Parker observes the Pastor Ned Jefferies nearly burned alive, but that is nothing to what else happens to him that fateful summer when the Preacher's wife and ten year old daughter Sharon Rose take over the lad's home following the inferno. Because he accidentally...
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A romantic yet tradgic tale of love undiscovered. Truly a book you can not put away until you reach the surprising yet fated end. This story works on so many levels you will be thinking about the tale and those wonderful characters long after you turn the last page.
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