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Treeborne : a novel / Caleb Johnson.
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(2018.)
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New York :
Picador,
2018.
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- ISBN: 9781250169099 (electronic bk.)
| General Note: | Electronic book. |
| Summary: | "Wedged between the bluffs and the river for which it's named, there's a small and all-but-forgotten town. Janie Treeborne lives on an orchard at the edge of Elberta, Alabama, and in time, she has become its keeper. A place where conquistadors once walked, and where the peaches they left behind now grow, Elberta has seen fierce battles, violent storms, and frantic change--and when the town is once again threatened from without, Janie realizes it won't withstand much more. So she tells the story of its people: of Hugh, her granddaddy, determined to preserve Elberta's legacy through his art; of his wife Maybelle, who shook the town when she became its first female postmaster, then again when she died a sudden and mysterious death; of her lover Lee Malone, a black orchardist and musician harvesting from a land where he is less than welcome; of the local legend Ricky Birdsong, who scored touchdown after touchdown, only to run headlong into tragedy; of the time Janie herself kidnapped her own Hollywood-obsessed aunt and tore the wrong people apart. As the world closes in on Elberta, Alabama--a fictional land equal parts Macon and Macondo--Caleb Johnson's debut novel lifts the veil and offers one last glimpse. Treeborne is both a celebration and a reminder: of the difficulty of untangling the past from the future, and of how home is a story as much as a place"-- |
| Reproduction: | Electronic reproduction. New York Picador 2018 Available via World Wide Web. |
| Subject: | Women -- Southern States -- Fiction Small cities -- Fiction Southern states -- Social life and customs -- Fiction Change -- Fiction Home -- Fiction Alabama -- Fiction |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction Electronic books |
Citation:
Johnson, Caleb.
"Treeborne : a novel."
New York :
Picador,
2018.
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