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Jewel (Oprah's Book Club)

Washington Square Press

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UPC:
9780671038182
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
1999-01-19
Release Date:
1999-01-19
Author:
Bret Lott
Language:
english
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Jewel is the story of how quickly a life can change; how, like lightning, an unforeseen event can set us on a course without reason or compass.

In the backwoods of Mississippi, a land of honeysuckle and grapevine, Jewel and her husband, Leston, are truly blessed; they have five fine children. When Brenda Kay is born in 1943, Jewel gives thanks for a healthy baby, last-born and most welcome.

In this story of a woman's devotion to the child who is both her burden and God's singular way of smiling on her, Bret Lott has created a mother-daughter relationship of matchless intensity and beauty, and one of the finest, most indomitable heroines in contemporary American fiction.