Whistling Past the Graveyard
From an award-winning author comes a wise and tender coming-of-age story about a nine-year-old girl who runs away from her Mississippi home in 1963, befriends a lonely woman suffering loss and abuse, and embarks on a life-changing roadtrip.The summer of 1963 begins like any other for...
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From an award-winning author comes a wise and tender coming-of-age story about a nine-year-old girl who runs away from her Mississippi home in 1963, befriends a lonely woman suffering loss and abuse, and embarks on a life-changing roadtrip.The summer of 1963 begins like any other for nine-year-old Starla Claudelle. Born to teenage parents in Mississippi, Starla is being ra
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Format: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B009K54QJ2
Publisher: Gallery Books
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Travel,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
American,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Family,
Coming Of Age,
Southern,
Road Trip
"Grown-ups was real complicated. And Eula was the most tangled-up one I'd ever tried to figure out."I love a Southern novel and this one fits the bill. The story is suspenseful and the characters are are compelling. A good summer read.
What a ride! From the beginning pages of this book, Starla captured my heart and even though there were times, I questioned her judgment I knew that she was only nine and she was living her life. The time is 1963 and segregation was just in its beginning stages. Living in Mississippi with her Mam...
3.5 Stars. Starla has had it up to here with her grandmother, Mamie. She’s sick of being called trash and being on restriction all the time while her daddy tries to make ends meet working on an off-shore oil rig. When she finally blows her top and punches out the neighborhood bully on the 4th of ...
MY THOUGHTSABSOLUTELY LOVED ITStarla is almost 10 years old when she is put on restriction AGAIN by her grandmother, where she lives in a small town in Mississippi while her father works on an oil rig. The disappointment grows when Starla realizes that she will miss the Fourth of July parade and fi...
This was a strange little novel and I'm not sure how I feel about it just yet, so this review might change. The book is about a young girl in 1960 Mississippi. Starla's mother ran away to chase stardom in Nashville and her father works aboard an oil rig, so Starla is left with her strict, proper Sou...
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