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The Grass Widow

The Grass Widow

Smith, Mary Burnett

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Literary Fiction

Publisher Price: $27.95

ISBN10: 1450220363
ISBN13: 9781450220361
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: Oct 14 2010
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Through the reminiscences of Kate Hamilton, an African American woman living in rural Furlong County, Virginia, The Grass Widow reveals the effects of deceit and adultery on the marriage of a young, impressionable girl.

It is August, 1988, and on her porch Kate, now a sensitive, attractive woman of fifty-eight, contemplates events during her forty-year marriage to her philandering husband, Elmore, who five years earlier had a stroke when he discovered a letter indicating that Kate had been unfaithful. Feeling that she is partly to blame for his stroke, she has dutifully cared for him until he is almost recovered. Now she awaits the yearly homecoming visit of her sisters Olivia and Lydia, who want to sell the family farm and persuade Kate and Elmore to live with them in Pennsylvania. But Kate laments the disappearance of the large farms around their own property, realizing that the sale of theirs will hasten the disappearance of the small African American community which centers around her church, Canaan Baptist.

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