The ballad of Laurel Springs /
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. Her family's tangled past is part o...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.,
[2021].
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| Summary: | 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. Her family's tangled past is part of a dark legacy in which the lives of generations of women are affected by the violence immortalized in folksongs like 'Knoxville Girl' and 'Pretty Polly' reminding them always to know their place or risk the wages of sin. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 273 pages ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781982151560 1982151560 9781982151577 1982151579 |