The crocodile bride / Ashleigh Bell Pedersen.
"Set during the swampy summer in 1982, this stunning debut novel follows eleven-year-old Sunshine Turner and her troubled father Billy as the secrets of their family's past swirl around them in the one-road town of Fingertip, Louisiana. During a hot summer of June moods, grubworms, and dark storms, Sunshine discovers stones in her chest - and learns the dangers her coming-of-age will bring about in the yellow house she shares with her father. Without the vocabulary to comprehend Billy's actions or her own changing body, Sunshine turns to a story passed down through the generations of the Turner family: in the dark waters of the Black Bayou lives a crocodile with an insatiable appetite, and a woman with a mysterious healing gift. As Sunshine's summer unspools, she turns to the one person who will need no explanation of the family secrets she carries-the crocodile bride. The Crocodile Bride is at once a heartbreakingly tender coming-of-age tale and a lyrical, haunting reflection on generational trauma. Reminiscent of Jesmyn Ward and Helen Oyeyemi, Ashleigh Bell Pedersen is a promising new voice in American fiction"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781938235917
- ISBN: 1938235916
- Physical Description: 291 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Spartanburg, SC : Hub City Press, [2022].
Content descriptions
General Note: | "A Novel"--Dust jacket. |
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Subject: | Life change events > Fiction. Small cities > Fiction. Conflict of generations > Fiction. Parent and child > Fiction. Louisiana > Fiction. |
Genre: | Bildungsromans. Historical fiction. Novels. |
Available copies
- 2 of 2 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Carthage Public.
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- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Carthage Public Library | FIC Pederson, Ashleigh Bell (Text) | 34MO2001812940 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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