"By turns moving and biting, lyrical and dramatic, Eve's Garden is filled with private secrets and lush images of the natural world. In this fine novel, Glenda Bailey-Mershon reveals she has the soul of a poet and the heart of a story-teller." ~ Diana Abu-Jaber Author of Arabian Jazz and The Language of Baklava. Eve’s Garden Eve Gates is intent on finding a way to fly away from the small town where her millworker family lives a wary existence and where her best friend meets bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 1 min. · Reading Eve's Garden is akin to taking a journey that crosses continents, explores cultures, and vacillates back and forth through the years of to The beauty in Bailey-Mershon's story is the way in which she develops incredibly strong female characters and evokes a strong sense of place/5.
Title: Eve's Garden; Author: Glenda Bailey-Mershon; ISBN: ; Page: ; Format: Paperback; Fiction Women s Studies Eve Gates is intent on finding a way to fly away from the small town where her millworker family lives a wary existence and where her best friend meets tragedy Tired of battling her loving but close mouthed mother, Maisie, for details about Evangeline, the grandmother. Eve's Garden ebook By Glenda Bailey-Mershon. Read a Sample. Sign up to save your library. With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. Eve's Garden evokes the power of childhood friendships and family ties, the prejudices that fester in the human heart, and the courage it. "By turns moving and biting, lyrical and dramatic, Eve's Garden is filled with private secrets and lush images of the natural world. In this fine novel, Glenda Bailey-Mershon reveals she has the soul of a poet and the heart of a story-teller." ~ Diana Abu-Jaber Author of Arabian Jazz and The Language of Baklava.
Debut novelist Glenda Bailey-Mershon writes prose so evocative that it would pass for poetry, and her eye for color, light and humanity illuminates a rare and neglected corner of our shared American history.” —Janis Owens, author of American Ghost "I love the scope of this novel. Eve’s Garden is a lyrical page-turner that tells the authentic history of growing up Roma in America— a.k.a. “Gypsy.” Bailey-Mershon lets the reader spy into private lives and secrets that are hidden from Evie, a shy, inquisitive child in rural ’s Georgia who grows to be a pageant queen. Eve longs to write, to travel, but must first understand a history she knows only in bits and pieces. Stories, as Bailey-Mershon tells us, can pour out of our hearts like water. With Eve's Garden, Glenda Bailey-Mershon invites us into a world where 'words lodged tight against the breastbone' free themselves, as secrets, personal and cultural, are finally reclaimed.
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