The Ballad of Laurel Springs by Janet Beard is now available for free ePub download or online reading.<\/p>\n
Intro:<\/strong><\/p>\n From the internationally bestselling author of The Atomic City Girls , a provocative novel set in eastern Tennessee that \u201cexplores the legacies\u2014of passion and violence, music and faith\u2014that haunt one family across the generations\u201d (Jillian Medoff, author of This Could Hurt ).<\/p>\n Ten-year-old Grace is in search of a subject for her fifth-grade history project when she learns that her four times-great grandfather once stabbed his lover to death. His grisly act was memorialized in a murder ballad, her aunt tells her, so it must be true. But the lessons of that revelation\u2014to be careful of men and desire\u2014are not just Grace\u2019s to learn. Her family\u2019s tangled past is part of a dark legacy in which the lives of generations of women are affected by the violence immortalized in folk songs like \u201cKnoxville Girl\u201d and \u201cPretty Polly\u201d reminding them always to know their place\u2014or risk the wages of sin.<\/p>\n Janet Beard\u2019s stirring novel, informed by her love of these haunting ballads, vividly imagines these women, defined by the secrets they keep, the surprises they uncover, and the lurking sense of menace that follows them throughout their lives even as they try to make a safe place in the world for themselves. \u201cThis inspired story of Appalachian folklore\u201d ( Publishers Weekly ) will move and rouse you.. First published October 19, 2021. Original format: Paperback. Pages: 288. #the-ballad-of-laurel-springs-ebook #the-ballad-of-laurel-springs-epub #read #download<\/p>\n User Rating: 3.54 (based on 823 ratings)<\/p>\n Download EPUB The Ballad of Laurel Springs by Janet Beard<\/strong><\/p>\n \ud83d\udcc1 File details: the-ballad-of-laurel-springs.epub<\/em><\/p>\n