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A parchment of leaves : a novel

Raised in Kentucky in the early 1900s, Cherokee-born Vine has trained her eye on a young white man, forsaking her family and homeland to settle in with his people.

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  • "Raised in Kentucky in the early 1900s, Cherokee-born Vine has trained her eye on a young white man, forsaking her family and homeland to settle in with his people."@en
  • "Raised in Kentucky in the early 1900s, Cherokee-born Vine has trained her eye on a young white man, forsaking her family and homeland to settle with his people."
  • "In 1917, a Cherokee woman who leaves her community to marry a white man finds herself isolated and discriminated against as she tries to settle in to her new life."
  • "When Silas House made his debut with Clay's Quilt last year, it touched a nerve not just in his home state (where it quickly became a bestseller), but all across the country. Glowing reviews-from USA Today (House is letter-perfect with his first novel), to the Philadelphia Inquirer (Compelling... House knows what's important and reminds us of the value of family and home, love and loyalty), to the Mobile Register (Poetic, haunting) and everywhere in between--established him as a writer to watch. His second novel won't disappoint. Set in 1917, A Parchment of Leaves tells the story of Vine, a beautiful Cherokee woman who marries a white man, forsaking her family and their homeland to settle in with his people and make a home in the heart of the mountains. Her mother has strange forebodings that all will not go well, and she's right. Vine is viewed as an outsider, treated with contempt by other townspeople. Add to that her brother-in-law's fixation on her, and Vine's life becomes more complicated than she could have ever imagined. In the violent turn of events that ensues, she learns what it means to forgive others and, most importantly, how to forgive herself. As haunting as an old-time ballad, A Parchment of Leaves is filled with the imagery, dialect, music and thrumming life of the Kentucky mountains. For Silas House, whose great-grandmother was Cherokee, this novel is also a tribute to the family whose spirit formed him."@en
  • "When Silas House made his debut with Clay's Quilt last year, it touched a nerve not just in his home state (where it quickly became a bestseller), but all across the country. Glowing reviews-from USA Today (House is letter-perfect with his first novel), to the Philadelphia Inquirer (Compelling. ... House knows what's important and reminds us of the value of family and home, love and loyalty), to the Mobile Register (Poetic, haunting), and everywhere in between-established him as a writer to watch. His second novel won't disappoint. Set in 1917, A PARCHMENT OF LEAVES tells the story of Vine, a beautiful Cherokee woman who marries a white man, forsaking her family and their homeland to settle in with his people and make a home in the heart of the mountains. Her mother has strange forebodings that all will not go well, and she's right. Vine is viewed as an outsider, treated with contempt by other townspeople. Add to that her brother-in-law's fixation on her, and Vine's life becomes more complicated than she could have ever imagined. In the violent turn of events that ensues, she learns what it means to forgive others and, most important, how to forgive herself. As haunting as an old-time ballad, A PARCHMENT OF LEAVES is filled with the imagery, dialect, music, and thrumming life of the Kentucky mountains. For Silas House, whose great-grandmother was Cherokee, this novel is also a tribute to the family whose spirit formed him."@en
  • ""In 1917, a Cherokee woman who leaves her community to marry a white man finds herself isolated and discriminated against as she tries to settle in to her new life. By the author of Clay's Quilt"--NoveList."@en
  • "In the rural Kentucky of the early 1900s, young Saul Sullivan is heading to Redbud Camp to look for work. He is wary but unafraid of the Cherokee girl there whose beauty is said to cause the death of all men who see her. But the minute Saul lays eyes on Vine, he knows she is meant to be his wife. Vine's mother disapproves of the marriage; Saul's mother, Esme, has always been ill at ease around the Cherokee people. But once Vine walks into God's Creek, Saul's mother and his brother, Aaron, take to her immediately. It quickly becomes clear to Vine, though, that Aaron is obsessed with her. And when Saul leaves God's Creek for a year to work in another county, the wife he leaves behind will never be the same again. The violence that lies ahead for Vine will test not only her spirit but her ability to forgive--both others and herself.--Book cover."@en

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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"

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  • "A Parchment of Leaves"
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