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Author Richardson, Kim Michele, author.

Title GodPretty in the tobacco field / Kim Michele Richardson.

Publication Info. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2021.
©2016

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 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Main Level  LARGE PRINT FICTION RICHARDSON    Check Shelf
Edition Large print edition.
Description 463 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Physical Medium large print. rdafs
Summary Nameless, Kentucky, in 1969 is a hardscrabble community where jobs are few and poverty is a simple fact - just like the hot Appalachian breeze or the pests that can destroy a tobacco field. RubyLyn Bishop is luckier than some. Her God-fearing uncle, Gunnar, has a short fuse and high expectations, but he's given her a good home ever since she was orphaned at the age of five. Yet now a month shy of her 16th birthday, RubyLyn itches for more. Maybe it's something to do with the paper fortunetellers RubyLyn has been making for townsfolk, each covered with beautifully wrought, prophetic drawings. Or perhaps it's because of Rainey Ford, her black neighbour who works alongside her in the tobacco field and with whom she has a kinship - despite the disapproval of others. RubyLyn's predictions are just wishful thinking, not magic at all, but through them she's imagining life as it could be, away from the prejudice and hardship that ripple through Nameless.
Subject Appalachians (People) -- Fiction.
Young women -- Fiction.
Cootie catchers -- Fiction.
Tobacco farms -- Fiction.
Mountain life -- Fiction.
Kentucky -- Fiction.
Kentucky -- Race relations -- Fiction.
Appalachians (People) (OCoLC)fst00811516
Cootie catchers. (OCoLC)fst00878289
Mountain life. (OCoLC)fst01028269
Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
Tobacco farms. (OCoLC)fst01151893
Young women. (OCoLC)fst01183301
Kentucky. (OCoLC)fst01204494
Genre/Form Large type books
Bildungsromans. (OCoLC)fst01726536
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Historical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726640
Bildungsromans.
Historical fiction.
ISBN 9781432887575 (large print) (paperback)
1432887572 (large print) (paperback)
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