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Eden: A Novel

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Engelsk
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Romaner

A “profoundly raw and gripping” novel of a young girl in Mississippi struggling with poverty and a troubled family (The Baltimore Sun).

In Mississippi, fourteen-year-old Maddy Dangerfield has just impulsively drawn a naked woman on the pages of Genesis in bright red lipstick during Sunday service. The community is scandalized, and her devout, long-suffering mother’s response is to force her to spend weekends nursing her Aunt Pip—an outcast who lives on the edge of town.

Now Maddy moves between her own home—which she shares with her hard-working, Bible-reading mother and her drinking, gambling, womanizing father—and Commitment Road, where she serves as caregiver for her aunt, who is dying of breast cancer. Grievances from the past have left Pip estranged from the family, but as Maddy spends time with her and her eccentric neighbor, Fat, she begins to discover the exhilaration of speaking your own mind and living life on your own terms—as well as the cost extracted by both. And as she confronts the injustice and cruelty of the world around her, she will come to understand both the burden and the blessing of her newfound knowledge.

“The rural countryside of Pyke County, Mississippi, resembles a scorched paradise—an Eden after the fall, after the snake has brought darkness, disease and decay into the world. ” —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“Maddy Dangerfield, who is reminiscent of Celie in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple or Ellen Foster in Kaye Gibbons’s eponymous novel, must grapple with a cruel, impoverished existence … As emotionally powerful as it is poetic, Vernon’s raw and fierce first novel possesses a beautiful, albeit brutal, lyricism and introduces a strong new Southern voice. ” —Library Journal

© 2007 Grove Press (E-bog): 9781555847524

Release date

E-bog: 1. december 2007

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