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A Place That Was Home
About this book
A chance encounter with a forgotten childhood friend makes a woman take stock of her own shortcomings through the years.A rural family's peaceful Sunday night is disrupted by a frightening, unexpected visitor.A charming blind student brings a new perspective to an emotionally distant teacher.A woman is eyewitness to a neighbor's struggle with alcoholism and the tragic outcome of his problems.These incidents and many others are captured in A Place That Was Home.Chronicling a Western North Carolina woman's experiences from the 1960s to the present, the twenty-one personal essays in A Place That Was Home vividly depict a regional world in which families live, work, and worship and others suffer from dire circumstances.A Place That Was Home invites the reader into this compelling world.
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Table of contents
- Title Page and Copyright Information
- Acknowledgments
- Grandma's Bed
- About the Author