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Whistling Past the Graveyard
Whistling Past the Graveyard
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Whistling Past the Graveyard
by Susan Crandall
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Edition Description
From an award-winning author comes a wise and tender coming-of-age story about a nine-year-old girl who runs away from her Mississippi home in 1963, befriends a lonely woman suffering loss and abuse, and embarks on a life-changing road trip. Whistling past the graveyard. That's what Daddy called it when you did something to keep your mind off your most worsts fear... In the summer of 1963, nine-year-old Starla Claudelle runs away from her strict grandmother's Mississippi home. Starla's destination is Nashville, where her mother went to become a famous singer, abandoning Starla when she was three. Walking a lonely country road, Starla accepts a ride from Eula, a black woman traveling alone with a white baby. Now, on the road trip that will change her life forever, Starla sees for the first-time life as it really is--as she reaches for a dream of how it could one day be.
Edition Details
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Condition: Used good
