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The Cherokee rose : a novel of gardens and ghosts /

Three young women are drawn to the Chief Vann House Historic Site in Chatsworth, Georgia, where scenes of extreme cruelty and equally extraordinary compassion once played out. Jinx is exploring her tribe's complicated racial history. Ruth, a writer, is there on assignment. Cheyenne seeks to con...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Miles, Tiya, 1970- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Winston-Salem, North Carolina : John F. Blair, Publisher, [2015]
Subjects:
Cherokee Indians > Georgia > History > 19th century > Fiction.
Plantations > Georgia > Spring Place > History > 19th century > Fiction.
Plantation life > Georgia > Spring Place > History > 19th century > Fiction.
Chief Vann House (Spring Place, Ga.) > Fiction.
Chief Vann House (Spring Place, Ga.)
Cherokee Indians.
Plantation life.
Plantations.
Georgia.
Georgia > Spring Place.
1800 - 1899
Historical fiction.
Fiction.
History.
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Summary:Three young women are drawn to the Chief Vann House Historic Site in Chatsworth, Georgia, where scenes of extreme cruelty and equally extraordinary compassion once played out. Jinx is exploring her tribe's complicated racial history. Ruth, a writer, is there on assignment. Cheyenne seeks to connect with a meaningful personal history. Together they discover the secrets of the Cherokee plantation, and find that attempts to connect with the strong spirits of the past will help them reconcile the conflicts in their own lives.
Physical Description:256 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:9780895876355 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
0895876353 (hardcover : acid-free paper)