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A Gracious Plenty

Badly burned in a household accident when she was a child, then shunned for her disfiguring burn scars, Finch Nobles grows into a courageous and feisty loner who eschews the pity of her hometown and discovers that she can hear the voices of the people buried in her father's cemetery. Nobles tends the Southern small-town cemetery and spends time with the dead--a kinetic bunch who affect the weather and try to make peace with their pasts.

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  • "Badly burned in a household accident when she was a child, then shunned for her disfiguring burn scars, Finch Nobles grows into a courageous and feisty loner who eschews the pity of her hometown and discovers that she can hear the voices of the people buried in her father's cemetery. Nobles tends the Southern small-town cemetery and spends time with the dead--a kinetic bunch who affect the weather and try to make peace with their pasts."@en
  • "Disfigured by boiling water, Finch Nobles is so ugly people shun her. So Finch, who is employed as a caretaker in a cemetery, finds company in the dead who talk to her. Among her friends are the spirits of a beauty queen and a homeless man."@en
  • "Disfigured by boiling water, Finch Nobles is so ugly people shun her. So Finch, who is employed as a caretaker in a cemetery, finds company in the dead who talk to her. Among her friends are the spirits of a beauty queen and of a homeless man."
  • "Disfigured by boiling water, Finch Nobles is so ugly people shun her. So Finch, who is employed as a caretaker in a cemetery, finds company in the dead who talk to her. Among her friends are the spirits of a beauty queen and of a homeless man."@en
  • "In the lush and isolated cemetery of a small Southern town, Finch Nobles, the narrator of this inventive novel, tends to the flowers and shrubs that surround the monuments of people who were not known to her while they lived but who in death have become her lifeline. Badly burned in a household accident when she was just four, Finch grows into a courageous and feisty loner. She eschews the pity and awkward stares of the people of her hometown and discovers that if she listens closely enough, she can hear the voices of those who have gone before. Finally, when she speaks, they answer back, telling their stories in a remarkable chorus of regrets, explanations, and insights. But the infant Marcus, son of the town's mayor, died before he learned to speak and can only wail away the hours. The roots of his anguish are revealed in a crescendo of lasting resonance that ties together the outcast Finch, her dead friends, and the living community outside the cemetery's gates."@en
  • "Burned in a childhood accident, Finch Nobles leads a solitary life tending an isolated cemetery, where she learns she can listen and talk to the dead."@en

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Large type books"@en

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  • "A Gracious Plenty"
  • "A Gracious Plenty"@en
  • "A Gracious Plenty A Novel"@en
  • "A gracious plenty : a novel"
  • "A gracious plenty : a novel"@en
  • "A gracious plenty a novel"@en
  • "A gracious plenty"@en
  • "A gracious plenty"

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