Pages: 316
Finished: June 2009
Challenges:
** A-Z Challenge
** Read and Review
** tbr challenge
** Summer Vacation Challenge
** Southern Reading Challenge
First sentence: "My dear Hanneke, Your name is not much common here, I think it is so pretty too.".....
....so begins the letters that Ivy Rowe spends her life writing. Ivy was born near the turn of the century and and this lovely little book is the story of her life, spent in the Appalachian Mountains, seen through her eyes as she writes from her heart to those people most dear to her. Life is not easy--death being an all too common event, along with poverty and the lack of education. But life is still a thing of beauty to Ivy and she finds herself to be a strong woman, a loving woman, and a practical woman, trying to preserve the simple way of life that she holds precious amongst her memories of growing up in Sugar Fork.
From USA Today: "These beautiful letters...display Ivy's soul up close, the way a just caught firefly illuminates a jar. So read does she become that itis hared to believe that Ivy did not actually live to write her letters."
This looks like a great book! Thanks for the recommendation.
ReplyDeleteSounds wonderful! I hadn't heard of it before, thanks!
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