ASIN: B015VLFIWC
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 288
In the wooden country beyond St. Louis stands the Vandelee residence – a large, imposing house that has remained For Sale since the Wall Street crash some years ago. A Mrs Sylvia Antree finally acquires it – with the stipulation that bars be affixed to all the windows. Soon after, she moves in with her two silent, black-clad children, Bobby Lee and Georgia.Over on the slum side of town, Jenny and Stella Priest share a ramshackle mission house with their mother Addie and unloved stepfather, the Reverend Roy Grimes. The Reverend saves souls, dispensing free meals daily to the poor, along with a dose of hymn-singing. The girls can’t wait to escape this drab world of sin and salvation. Stella, the elder, plans to marry her way out and, loyally, she takes Jenny with her. There is an elopement and a drunken double wedding. So it is that Jenny enters the Vandelee residence as a shy teenage ...
