Lum

A Novel

Libby Ware

• Publisher: She Writes Press
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN:
  9781631520044
• Subtopic: Literature General

Lum has always been on the outside. At eight, she was diagnosed with what we now call an intersex condition and is told she can't expect to marry. Now, at thirty-three, she has no home of her own but is shuttled from one relative's house to another—valued for her skills, but never treated like a true member of the family. Everything is turned upside down, however, when the Blue Ridge Parkway is slated to come through her family's farmland. As people take sides in the fight, the community begins to tear apart—culminating in an act of violence and subsequent betrayal by opponents of the new road. However, the Parkway brings opportunities as well as loss.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• The Little Room Off the Porch 1933
• Pie-Making 1908
• Lum Goes to Smiley’s 1933
• Kenny’s Story 1933
• Sampson 1907
• Mighty Fine 1933
• First Card 1916
• Late Night 1933
• Kenny’s Uniform 1933
• Warning 1909
• Lum is Needed Elsewhere 1933
• Rich Boys 1913
• A Little Spending Money 1933
• Boo-Hah 1908
• The Road Men 1933
• Al Speaks Up 1910
• The Fuse Shortens 1933
• Little Margaret 1917
• Lum Asks Questions 1933
• Frozen 1918
• Landowners Meeting 1933
• On Sundays She Does It All 1920
• A Different Kind of Mad 1933
• Hangover Tea 1933
• Sides 1933
• The Company of Women 1927
• News 1933
• Nowhere to Go 1929
• Margaret’s Crazy Idea 1933
• Unexpected Visits 1933
• Feet Warming 1933
• Dan Does Some Business 1933
• The Will 1921
• Friday Night Supper 1933
• A Fitting Suit 1933
• Fishing 1907
• Family Objections 1933
• Condemned 1933
• Side Show 1934
• Afterword
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Selected Titles from She Writes Press