ASIN: B00QEIAM8W
Publisher: Stone Ivy Press
Pages: 181
Abandoned in the care of Aunt Mattie and Uncle Cade (the sheriff) in the North Carolina mountains, nine-year-old June Bruton becomes "Mattie's Girl" when Cade is killed, without witnesses, at the home of June's best friend PeeDee.In stories deeply rooted in 1940s Appalachia, June chronicles the years between meeting the irrepressible PeeDee and losing her. She struggles to understand her mother's indifference, her father's divided love, her grandmother's sudden death, her grandfather's being institutionalized. Three years later, PeeDee, riding the rails west, brings a final gift and the truth about Cade's murder. In this world forever gone, June survives and triumphs through the grace of family and friendship.ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Celia H. Miles, a native of Jackson County in western North Carolina, now lives in Asheville. She attended Brevard College and Berea College and has graduate ...
