Rush Home Road: A Novel
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0316008036 / Publisher: Back Bay Books, June 2008
When she volunteers to take in five-year-old Sharla Cody for the summer, Addy Shad, an eighty-year-old woman, and Sharla form a powerful bond that prompts Addy to recollect her own childhood in Rusholme, a town settled by fugitive slaves in the mid-1800s, detailing her family, her first love, and the tragic event that drove her away from home. A first novel. Reprint.
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When 5-year old Sharla Cody is dumped on the doorstep of Addy Shadd, a 70-year old woman living in a trailer park, Addy does not know how completely her life is about to change. She's hardly used to company and the troubled Sharla is not the sweet, beautiful angel she had envisioned. Over time, Addy and Sharla form a bond that neither of them expected-and Sharla begins to undergo a transformation under Addy's patient and loving care. But much to Addy's surprise and dismay, Sharla's presence brings back memories of her own tumultuous childhood. As she reminisces about her days growing up in Rusholme, a town settled by fugitive slaves in the mid 1800s, she remembers her family and her first love and confronts the painful experience that drove her away from home, never to return. Brilliantly structured and achingly lyrical, this beautiful first novel by the award-winning author of The Girls tells the story of two unlikely people thrown together who transform each other's lives forever.
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