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Chalktown by Melinda Haynes (2001)

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Item location:Plant City, Florida, United States
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Author: Melinda HaynesEdition: 1
Publisher: Hyperion BooksISBN-10: 078686656X
Category: Biography & MemoirISBN-13: 9780786866564
 --Format: Hardcover
 --Publication Year: 2001
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In this very Southern Gothic novel, the ambiguous death of a woman named Annie in 1955 begins a train of events that culminates six years later when a teenage boy and his little brother move into Annie's house in Chalktown, where people talk to each other by writing notes on blackboards.

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Length:317 pages
Height:9.5 in.
Width:6.8 in.
Thickness:1.0 in.
Weight:24.0 oz.

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From the author of the New York Times bestseller Mother of Pearl, a beautifully crafted and moving story of redemption and renewal set in 1960s Mississippi.
Melinda Haynes's "first novel of immense and staggering power" (Pat Conroy, author of Beach Music) was an unexpected sensation, chosen for Oprah's book club and selling more than half a million copies in hardcover. Now in the same devastatingly beautiful language that has won her critical and popular acclaim, Melinda Haynes returns to the country she knows so well -- the backwoods South of the 1960s -- to tell the story of a mysterious town and its inhabitants, each with their own afflictions and joys, each with their own secrets.
In sparsely populated George County, Mississippi, along a quiet dirt road lined by sharecropper houses, lies Chalktown -- a small village of folks who communicate mostly through the chalkboards hanging from their front porches. Down the road lives the Sheehand family: 16-year-old Hezekiah, his reckless sister Arena, his mentally disabled younger brother Yellababy, and their disaffected and often cruel mother, Susan Blair, whose husband has abandoned both the house and the family. One day, with Yellababy strapped to his back, Hez sets out for Chalktown, determined to plumb its mysteries, or maybe just to get away from his shabby home's oppressive atmosphere. And, on that same spring day, the family he's left behind will confront a tragedy that at once erases Hez's bitter past and paves the way for a hopeful future. Armed with a gothic and spiritual sensibility reminiscent of Flannery O'Connor, Melinda Haynes weaves her characters' lives and stories into an unforgettable tapestry of sorrow and salvation that confirms her place as one of our country's most exciting and consistently brilliant new writers.

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"[A] satisfying tale of violence and redemption....Haynes's lyrical prose will captivate readers willing to overlook a few ungainly knots in the storytelling."
Kirkus Reviews  (02/15/2001)

"Haynes has assembled all the ingredients for a well-crafted novel--vivid language, sharply etched characters and a suspenseful story line. But she has put them to work in such relentlessly desolate circumstances that it is sometimes a struggle to get through her tragic tale."
Washington Post Book World - Jennifer Greenstein (08/05/2001)


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