Where the Crawdads Sing meets The Four Winds as award-winning author Donna Everhart immerses readers in a unique setting -- a turpentine camp buried deep in the vast pine forests of Georgia during the Great Depression--for a captivating story of friendship, survival, and three vagabonds\' intersecting lives... - Booklist.
Fans of Sarah Addison Allen won\'t be able to put it down.
But she will have to come to terms with her past, with all its pain and beauty, before she can open herself to a new life and seize the chance to begin again.
As Rae Lynn forges a deeper friendship with both Del and Cornelia, she begins to envision a path out of the camp.
Delwood Reese, who\'s come to Swallow Hill hoping for his own redemption, offers Ray a small measure of protection, and is determined to improve their conditions.
Although Rae Lynn works tirelessly, she becomes a target for Crow, the ever-watchful woods rider who checks each laborer\'s tally.
The camp is isolated and squalid, and commissary owner Otis Riddle takes out his frustrations on his browbeaten wife, Cornelia.
Swallow Hill is no easy haven.
To keep herself from jail, she disguises herself as a man named Ray and heads to the only place she can think of that might offer anonymity--a turpentine camp in Georgia named Swallow Hill.
When Warren falls victim to his own negligence, Rae Lynn undertakes a desperate act of mercy.
Though the work is hard and often dangerous, Rae Lynn, who spent her childhood in an orphanage, is thankful for it--and for her kind if careless husband.
Among them is Rae Lynn Cobb and her husband, Warren, who run a small turpentine farm together.
In the dense pine forests of North Carolina, turpentiners labor, hacking into tree trunks to draw out the sticky sap that gives the Tar Heel State its nickname, and hauling the resin to stills to be refined.
It takes courage to save yourself...
Where the Crawdads Sing meets The Four Winds as award-winning author Donna Everhart immerses readers in a unique setting -- a turpentine camp buried deep in the vast pine forests of Georgia during the Great Depression--for a captivating story of friendship, survival, and three vagabonds\' intersecting lives..
