The Saints of Swallow Hill av Donna Everhart

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<b><i>Where the Crawdads Sing</i> meets <i>The Four Winds</i> as award-winning author Donna Everhart''s latest novel immerses readers in its unique setting—the turpentine camps and pine forests of the American South during the Great Depression. This captivating story of friendship, survival, and three vagabonds'' intersecting lives will stay with readers long after turning the final page.</b><br><br><i>It takes courage to save yourself...</i><br><br>In the dense pine forests of North Carolina, turpentiners labor, hacking into tree trunks to draw out the sticky sap that gives the Tar Heel State its nickname, and hauling the resin to stills to be refined. Among them is Rae Lynn Cobb and her husband, Warren, who run a small turpentine farm together.<br><br>Though the work is hard and often dangerous, Rae Lynn, who spent her childhood in an orphanage, is thankful for it--and for her kind if careless husband. When Warren falls victim to his own negligence, Rae Lynn undertakes a desper