商品簡介
Situated in a remote Appalachian outpost at the turn of the last century, the story Lenore McComas Coberly tells of life up on Big Ugly is one of place, people, and unquenchable spirit. In Sarah's Girls, the fictionalized account of her recent ancestors, Coberly chronicles their lives, their dreams, and their hardships over the course of the twentieth century.
At the center of the story are the daughters of Sarah and Philip Hager - Madge, Pearl, Ida, and Edna - who are cared for after Sarah's death by her sister, Lena. Like the four March sisters of Little Women, Sarah's girls rely on the close ties of family to guide their journeys into womanhood. Throughout their lives they remain bound to Big Ugly by Sarah's transcendent spirit and the abiding love of their indomitable Aunt Lena.
In language both tender and spare, Coberly takes the reader back to Big Ugly, using the stories she was told in her childhood as a bridge to the past. But Sarah's Girls is not about the author; it is about the people and a place she loves. It is fiction written to tell the deeper truth about the hold the mountains and valleys of West Virginia have on its people.
作者簡介
Lenore McComas Coberly grew up in Lincoln County, West Virginia. She is the author of The Handywoman Stories and the senior author of Writers Have No Age. Her poetry,
