Whistling Past the Graveyard

From an award-winning author comes a wise and tender coming-of-age story ab out a nine-year-old girl who runs away from her Mississippi home in 1963, b efriends a lonely woman suffering loss and abuse, and embarks on a life-cha nging road trip. Whistling past the graveyard. That's what Daddy called it when you did some thing to keep your mind off your most worstest fear. In the summer of 1963, nine-year-old Starla Claudelle runs away from her st rict grandmother's Mississippi home. Starla's destination is Nashville, whe re her mother went to become a famous singer, abandoning Starla when she wa s 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 w ill change her life forever, Starla sees for the first time life as it real ly is-as she reaches for a dream of how it could one day be. Editorial Reviews Review "A coming-of-age story as well as a luminous portrait of courage and the bo nds of friendship. . . Susan Crandall tells young Starla's story with pitch -perfect tone, evoking 1963 Mississippi and its struggles with a deft hand. I laughed and cried at Starla's keen observances of life and family and th e sometimes blurred edges of justice. Like Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbi rd and Kathryn Stockett's The Help, Whistling Past the Graveyard is destine d to become a classic." -- New York Times bestselling author Karen White It's not easy to keep such a young narrator convincing for more than 300 pa ges. Readers will take to Starla and be caught up in her story. -- Mary E llen Quinn Booklist "Crandall delivers big with a coming-of.

Product Info

ISBN: 1476740046

ISBN-13: 9781476740041

Publisher: Gallery Books

Year: 2014

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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