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Unforgettable, this a powerful debut to savor. Kim Michele Richardson, New York Times bestselling author of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
A searing book club novel for fans of Where the Crawdads Sing and The Girls in the Stilt House following one girl fighting for her family, her body, and her right to create a future all her own
Some folks will do anything to control the wild spirit of a Carolina girl
For fourteen-year-old Leah Payne, life in her beloved coastal Carolina town is as simple as it is free. Devoted to her lumberjack father and running through the wilds where the forest meets the shore, Leahs country life is as natural as the Loblolly pines that rise to greet the Southern sky.
When an accident takes her fathers life, Leah is wrenched from her small community and cast into a family of strangers with a terrible secret. Separated from her only home, Leah is kept apart from the family and forced to act as a helpmate for the well-to-do household. When a moment of violence and prejudice thrusts Leah into the center of the states shameful darkness, she must fight for her own future against a world that doesnt always value the wild spirit of a Carolina girl.
Set in 1935 against the very real backdrop of a recently formed state eugenics board, The Last Carolina Girl is a powerful and heart-wrenching story of fierce strength, forgotten history, autonomy, and the places and people we ultimately call home.
Author: Meagan Church
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark
Published: 03/28/2023
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.7lbs
Size: 8.11h x 5.35w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9781728257150
Language: English
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