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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.