Home Across the Road. Cally was born with blue eyes, daughter of both black and white, but white did not claim her, except as property. Born a slave to a slave mother, Cally became a slave herself and when she was big enough she hauled water to the big house for cooking and cleaning. Read more. Home Across the Road Nancy Peacock, Author Longstreet Press $ (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. OTHER BOOKS. A Broom of One's Own: Words on Writing, Housecleaning. Writer and teacher, Nancy Peacock has three published novels, Life Without Water, Home Across the Road, and The Life and Times of Persimmon Wilson. Her memoir, A Broom of Ones Own: Words on Writing, Housecleaning, and Life, was published by Harper Collins in She writes and teaches writing workshops in Orange County, NC.
HOME ACROSS THE ROAD by Nancy Peacock is told in the same easy-going simple prose that made her debut novel LIFE WITHOUT WATER so charming. Unfortunately, this same style does not work for her second novel. I found this second novel lacking, and although the book had so much potential, spanning 5 generations from the days of slavery to the. Home Across the Road. by Nancy Peacock. China. In , China Redd was waiting to die. She was sixty-one years old and had been waiting to die for two years now, waiting even though death would not come. Death would not come even though China's eyes were rheumy and clouded, even though her back was bent and frail. Even though her hands shook. Nancy Peacock is the author of the novels Life Without Water and Home Across the Road, as well as the memoir, A Broom of One's Own: Words on Writing, Housecleaning, and bltadwin.ru currently teaches writing classes and workshops in and around Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where she lives with her husband Ben.
Her granddaughter Abolene is living with her across the road from Roseberry, along with Abolene's young baby daughter Cally. As China tells us her story, the reader slowly learns about the family's early days at Roseberry, and how Jennis Redd, a white man, fathered a child with Cally, a slave owned by Jennis. home across the road is a story across several generations of white land and slave owners and the slaves, freed slaves and their decedents whose lives remain intertwined. it's also a story about personalities, relationships, deep connections to the past, of loss, of the hidden/given meanings of objects and of the difficulties of escaping the life you're surrounded by. just as important to this book is peacock's writing. the voice of the book is lyrical; it's a storyteller's voice on a cool. Writer and teacher, Nancy Peacock has three published novels, Life Without Water, Home Across the Road, and The Life and Times of Persimmon Wilson. Her memoir, A Broom of Ones Own: Words on Writing, Housecleaning, and Life, was published by Harper Collins in She writes and teaches writing workshops in Orange County, NC.
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