
Bloodroot
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Amy Greene
Named for a flower whose blood-red sap possesses the power both to heal and poison, Bloodroot is a stunning fiction debut about the legacies - of magic and madness, faith and secrets, passion and loss - that haunt one family across the generations, from the Great Depression to today.
The novel is told in a kaleidoscope of seamlessly woven voices and centers around an incendiary romance that consumes everyone in its path: Myra Lamb, a wild young girl with mysterious, haint blue eyes who grows up on remote Bloodroot Mountain; her grandmother Byrdie Lamb, who protects Myra fiercely and passes down "the touch" that bewitches people and animals alike; the neighbor boy who longs for Myra yet is destined never to have her; the twin children Myra is forced to abandon but who never forget their mother's deep love; and John Odom, the man who tries to tame Myra and meets with shocking, violent disaster. Against the backdrop of a beautiful but often unforgiving country, these lives come together - only to be torn apart - as a dark, riveting mystery unfolds.
With grace and unflinching verisimilitude, Amy Greene brings her native Appalachia - and the faith and fury of its people - to rich and vivid life. Here is a spellbinding tour de force that announces a dazzlingly fresh, natural-born storyteller in our midst.
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Amazing story
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Excellent read
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Excellent story, wonderfully narrated!
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Bloodroot is spot-on with East Tennessee tone
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Appalachian storytelling at its best
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one of the best reads ever
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What did you love best about Bloodroot?
I love how the author wrote her characters in dialect and I give a lot of credit to the narrators who absolutely did an excellent job as well. The 'mountain-speak' dialect greatly enhanced my listening experience as it allowed me to hear, see, feel and almost taste the hauntingly bleak and riveting stories of each woman of the four generations of Lamb women in Bloodroot.Would you be willing to try another book from Amy Greene? Why or why not?
I will not hesitate to purchase more of Ms. Greene's books. If it/they are as good as Bloodroot then she has an eternal fan in me.What about the narrators’s performance did you like?
The narrators are absolutely fabulous. They bring the story to life in such a way that even I felt nostalgic for a place and people I have never seen. I truly would have gotten into a car and driven to Tennessee if I knew I could meet Ms. Greene's characters.Any additional comments?
This book has stayed with me. It brought tears to my eyes as well as tender redeeming moments that made me smile. I was hypnotized by the author’s vivid images of the stunning and wildly beautiful mountain-side as well as her descriptions of the poor and rundown lives of Tennessee’s rural backwoods residents. The Lamb women are born into hard lives. Theirs are the voices of unschooled, poverty stricken women who live in squalor, who are accustomed to situations of drug abuse, alcoholism, etc. and who choose men who prove to be less than adequate husbands and fathers.I could not help being drawn to the elements of superstition, magic, spirits, the Lambs’ family curses and their legacy as witches; and the beauty and tragedy of Myra Lamb with her ‘haint blue eyes’. Myra is born with the 'gift''. She can commune with birds, horses and other wild creatures. One day a neighbor finds her asleep in the leaves with a kaleidoscope of butterflies covering her like a blanket. She seems almost ethereal but like any teenage girl, Myra falls. She meets the darkly handsome John Odom and she’s willing to do whatever it takes to win him...even if that means resorting to a love charm she knows is taboo.IT'S NOT FORGETTING THAT HEALS. IT'S REMEMBERING.
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amazing
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At the very top of my favorites
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Surprise by how much I liked this book
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