"Southern States" . . . . . . "Fiction"@en . "Hope Mills a novel"@en . "For Tollie Ramsey of Hope Mills, a stifling mill town in 1950s North Carolina, life is coming apart. Her mother is contemplating suicide, her stepfather is drinking, and Tollie, 15, has just learned she is pregnant by a soldier. How Tollie gets out of her predicament is the subject of the novel. By the author of When Things Get Back to Normal."@en . . . "Bildungsromans"@en . "Hope mills : a novel" . . . . . . . . "Hope Mills" . "Hope Mills"@en . "Hope Mills : a novel"@en . . . .