The Saints of Swallow Hill by Donna Everhart

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As award-winning author Donna Everhart immerses readers in a unique setting—a turpentine camp buried deep in the vast pine forests of Georgia during the Great Depression—for a captivating story of friendship, survival, and three vagabonds' intersecting lives—Where the Crawdads Sing meets The Four Winds...

During the Great Depression, poor people were forced to live in and work in remote labor camps scattered across the vast pine forests of the American South. They are completely dependent on selfish camp owners who supply food and housing at exorbitant prices as they gather the pine gum that will be processed into turpentine, creating an ongoing cycle of work and debt. These camps, however, are sometimes the last and only alternative for the most destitute among America's enormous unemployed.

This is true for three people whose paths crossed in the deep forests of Georgia in 1932 at the Swallow Hill turpentine camp. Swallow Hill provides distance and obscurity for Rae Lynn Cobb, a young lady dressed as a man, from those who want to wrongfully arrest her for killing her kind but the reckless husband. It's a place where a charming bachelor called Del Reese might be able to forget about a recent trauma that has rattled him to his core.

Swallow Hill, on the other hand, is not a simple refuge. Crow, a nasty leader, and Otis Riddle, a selfish commissary owner who takes out his frustrations on his wife, Cornelia, govern the dismal camp. Under the ever-watchful, narrow-minded Crow, Del and "Ray Cobb" battle to survive tough, terrible conditions. Rae Lynn begins to see a way out of the camp as she develops deeper friendships with both Del and Cornelia. But before she can open herself to a new life and grab the opportunity to start again, she must come to terms with her past, with all its anguish and beauty.

Book details: The Saints of Swallow Hill

Author : Donna Everhart
Language : English
ISBN : ISBN
ISBN-13 : ISBN13
Number of pages : 288 pages
Publisher : PUBLISHER
Date of Publication : DATE

About the authors: Donna Everhart

Donna Everhart is the New York Times bestselling author of realistic and gritty Southern fiction, including The Road to Bittersweet, which won the Southeastern Library Association Award, and The Moonshiner's Daughter, her most recent novel.

Her fifth novel, The Saints of Swallow Hilll, will be published in February 2022.

She was born and raised in Raleigh, North Carolina, and currently resides in a small town in the Sandhills with her husband, where she is most likely working on her next novel.

She is a member of the Women's Fiction Writers Association, the Weymouth Center, and the North Carolina Writers' Network.

Donna Everhart's website is www.donnaeverhart.com.

Reviews: The Saints of Swallow Hill

"Like Rae Lynn and Del, the unusual backdrop of the turpentine camps in the South during the Great Depression will leave an impression on readers." Sarah Addison Allen fans will not be able to put it down. " —Booklist

"Rousing... movingly explores Jessie's battle with anorexia, viscerally expressing her twin impulses for nutrition and purging about a profound drive to define herself. Readers will be enthralled by Everhart's journey of self-discovery, which is full of colorful characters and a satisfying twist. " —Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW for The Moonshiner's Daughter

"The glimpse into this terrain and the moonshining subterranean is equal parts eye-opening and fascinating. The glimpse into this environment and the moonshining underground is equal parts eye-opening and fascinating. Everhart is gracious and compassionate in his treatment of Jessie's eating issue. The book also delves into the topics of family loyalty and heritage. There's a lot to take in, and it all adds up to an engaging reading experience. " —The Historical Novels Review on The Moonshiner's Daughter