"In this epic family drama set in Appalachia, unfolds the story of young, blue-eyed wild child Myra Lamb, who lives with her grandmother, Byrdie Lamb, on the isolated Bloodroot Mountain. The fiercely protective Byrdie passes down to Myra her ability to bewitch people and animals through touch. As Myra grows into adulthood, she rejects the affections of the neighbor boy, bears children, and encounters John Odom, a young man angling to tame the charming yet reckless woman."
"Myra Lamb, a wild young girl with mysterious, haint blue eyes who grows up on remote Bloodroot Mountain. Her grandmother Byrdie Lamb, who protects Myra fiercely and passes down "the touch" that bewitches people and animals alike; the neighbor boy who longs for Myra yet is destined never to have her; the twin children Myra is forced to abandon but who never forget their mother's deep love; and John Odom, the man who tries to tame Myra and meets with shocking, violent disaster. Against the backdrop of a beautiful but often unforgiving country, these lives come together only to be torn apart as a dark, riveting mystery unfolds."@en
"Greene's novel follows four generations of a poor Tennessee mountain family. Byrdie Lamb has mystical powers, but they prove inadequate in the face of the great tragedies that beset her family."@en

Bloodroot [a novel]