Full name: Glow: A Novel

Author: Jessica Maria Tuccelli Year: 2012 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Historical fiction, Fiction, Paranormal Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780670023318 0670023310

October 1941. Eleven-year-old Ella McGee sits on a bus bound for her Southern hometown. Behind her in Washington, D.C., lie the broken pieces of her parents' love story--a black father drafted, an activist mother an activist mother of Scotch-Irish and Cherokee descent confronting racist thugs. But Ella's journey is just beginning when she reaches Hopewell County, and her disappearance into the Georgia mountains will unfurl a rich tapestry of family secrets spanning a century. Told in five unforgettable voices, Glow reaches back through the generations, from the red-clay dust of the Great Depression to the Blue Ridge frontier of 1836, where slave plantations adjoin the haunted glades of a razed Cherokee Nation. Out of these characters' lives evolves a drama that is at once intimately human and majestic in its power to call upon the great themes of our time--race, identity, and the bonds of family and community. Lushly conceived, cinematically detailed, and epic in historical scope, Glow announces an extraordinary new voice in Southern fiction. Similar books: Freud's Mistress by Karen Mack The Sun in Splendour by Jean Plaidy Attila by William Napier Flambard's Confession by Marilyn Durham The Queen's Lover by Vanora Bennett William's Wife by Jean Plaidy Empire Rising by Sam Barone The Battle of the Queens by Jean Plaidy The Sand Reckoner by Gillian Bradshaw The Earl by Cecelia Holland The Warrior's Princess by Barbara Erskine Conqueror by Conn Iggulden A Catch of Consequence by Diana Norman Theodora by Stella Duffy The Queen from Provence by Jean Plaidy Corrag by Susan Fletcher I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Conde The Familiars by Stacey Halls Mist Over Pendle by Robert Neill The Vanishing Witch by Karen Maitland