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A chance encounter with a forgotten childhood friend makes a woman take stock of her own shortcomings through the years. A rural family's peaceful Sunday night is disrupted by a frightening, unexpected visitor. A charming blind student brings a new perspective to an emotionally distant teacher. A woman is eyewitness to a neighbor's struggle with alcoholism and the tragic outcome of his problems. These incidents and many others are captured in A Place That Was Home. Chronicling a Western North Carolina woman’s experiences from the 1960s to the present, the twenty-one personal essays in A Place That Was Home vividly depict a regional world in which families live, work, and worship and others suffer from dire circumstances. A Place That Was Home invites the reader into this compelling world.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781632132949
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 162
  • Udgivet:
  • 30. august 2016
  • Størrelse:
  • 152x229x9 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 245 g.
  • 2-3 uger.
  • 10. december 2024

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A chance encounter with a forgotten childhood friend makes a woman take stock of her own shortcomings through the years.
A rural family's peaceful Sunday night is disrupted by a frightening, unexpected visitor.

A charming blind student brings a new perspective to an emotionally distant teacher.

A woman is eyewitness to a neighbor's struggle with alcoholism and the tragic outcome of his problems.

These incidents and many others are captured in A Place That Was Home.

Chronicling a Western North Carolina woman’s experiences from the 1960s to the present, the twenty-one personal essays in A Place That Was Home vividly depict a regional world in which families live, work, and worship and others suffer from dire circumstances.

A Place That Was Home invites the reader into this compelling world.

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