The ballad of Laurel Springs

Summary: "A provocative new novel by the nationally bestselling author of THE ATOMIC CITY GIRLS, about nine generations of one family in Eastern Tennessee whose women, in eerie echoes of the notorious Appalachian murder ballads made famous by singers, over more than a century, have been traumatized by acts of violence"--

Item details

ISBN: 9781982151560
ISBN: 1982151560
ISBN: 9781982151577
ISBN: 1982151579
ISBN: 9781982151584
Physical Description: print
viii, 273 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York : Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2021.
Copyright: ©2021

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:

Pretty Polly: Grace, 2019 -- The wife of Usher's Well: Pearl (Grace's great-great-great-great-grandmother), 1907-1908 -- The wayfaring stranger: Miriam (Pearl's daughter-in-law), 1925 -- Careless love blues: Frieda (Miriam's "stepdaughter"), 1937 -- Devil's dream: Polly (Frieda's half-sister) 1942-1962 -- Little sparrow: Sarah (Polly's daughter), 1974-1975 -- The Knoxville girl: Carrie (Sarah's daughter), 1985-1993 -- Power in the blood: Lydia (Carrie's "goddaughter"), 2011-2013 -- Pretty Polly (reprise): Polly (Lydia's great-great-great-great-aunt), 1891.