A bold, dark-hued novel by a writer who “conjures beauty from the ugliest of things” (The Wall Street Journal) In the final twilit moments of her life, an e

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A spunky little girl who lives on her grandfather's farm in Kentucky reunites a fragmented family after the Civil War.