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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Beard, Janet (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., [2021].
Subjects:	Family secrets > Fiction. Murder > Fiction. Women > Violence against > United States > Fiction. Ballads > Fiction. Tennessee, East > Fiction. FICTION / Women. FICTION / Small Town & Rural. FICTION / Sagas.

Table of Contents:

Pretty Polly: Grace, 2019
The wife of Usher's Well: Pearl (Grace's great-great-great-great-grandmother), 1907-1908
The wayfaring stranger: Miriam (Pearl's daughter-in-law), 1925
Careless love blues: Frieda (Miriam's "stepdaughter"), 1937
Devil's dream: Polly (Frieda's half-sister) 1942-1962
Little sparrow: Sarah (Polly's daughter), 1974-1975
The Knoxville girl: Carrie (Sarah's daughter), 1985-1993
Power in the blood: Lydia (Carrie's "goddaughter"), 2011-2013
Pretty Polly (reprise): Polly (Lydia's great-great-great-great-aunt), 1891.