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GodPretty in the Tobacco Field

By: Kim Michele Richardson
Narrated by: Katie Schorr
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Atmospheric and searingly honest, GodPretty in the Tobacco Field is Coal Miner's Daughter meets Winter's Bone in a gripping tale of tender love and loss.

Nameless, Kentucky, in 1969 is a hardscrabble community where jobs are few and poverty is a simple fact - just like the hot Appalachian breeze or the pests that can wipe out a tobacco field in days. RubyLyn Bishop is luckier than some. Her God-fearing uncle, Gunnar, has a short fuse and high expectations, but he's given her a good home ever since she was orphaned at the age of five. Yet now, a month shy of her 16th birthday, RubyLyn itches for more.

Maybe it's something to do with the paper fortune-tellers RubyLyn has been making for townsfolk, each covered with beautifully wrought, prophetic drawings. Or perhaps it's because of Rainey Ford, an African American neighbor who works alongside her in the tobacco field and with whom she has a kinship despite her uncle's worrisome shadow and the town's disapproval. RubyLyn's predictions are just wishful thinking, not magic at all, but through them she's imagining life as it could be, away from the prejudice and hardship that ripple through Nameless.

©2016 Kim Michele Richardson (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Coming of Age Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Tobacco Smoking Tear-jerking Feel-Good
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set in the 60s or eRly seventies the story is one of the white poor and their attitudes to race in the tobacco fields where life is hard for everyone.

a page turner

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Loved the narration, the eye opening descriptions and the storyline. it was a very moving story

Very good listen!

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I really enjoyed this book .Delightfully read. a story of humour, hardship and life.

Lovely listen

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A beautiful novel, narrated so eloquently and bringing all the characters to life. I loved the soft Southern drawl of the accent as narrated by Katie Schorr. This is what life on a tobacco plantation must've really been like in those days. The story played like a film in my head. I could see it and feel it. The harshness, poverty, backbreaking physical field and farm work, the bigotry and blatant racism and then the endearing innocence of RubyLyn and her heart aching for someone to love her, her passion for Art and her softness of character. I really loved her character. I was totally lost on this story and it's made me want to read more by this Author.

Just Beautiful

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Gorgeous story of the everyday difficulties of life at that time, in that place. Written so tenderly. A heartbreaking twist and story of redemption. Beautiful.

Beautiful

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