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Publisher:
Harpers Collins |
Release
Date: July 2003 |
ISBN:
06101141X |
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Format
Reviewed: Paperback |
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Genre:
Fiction |
Reviewed:
2003 |
Reviewer:
Barbara Buhrer |
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Homeplace
By Anne
Rivers Siddon
Micah
Winship (Mike) is a noted journalist, mother and divorce who is
asked by her sister, DeeDee, to return to Lylton, Georgia, their
homeplace to help care for their dying father. Mike had left the
homeplace 20 years ago to escape an abusive relationship with her
father.
She
finds her father in a battle with the Department of Treasury to
prevent their building a highway through the farm. She plans to
stay a few weeks, but gradually comes to understand her father's
attachment to the land and joins in the fight. She also rediscovers
her girlhood love for Bayard Sewell, lawyer and politician. It becomes
a time of revaluation: about her relationship with her father, her
sister and her lover. The strained family relationships which need
to be mended are treated with compassion and understanding.
This
is a deeply moving story of love and passion, death and greed, with
the pull of family.
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