The Clam Shell (Mary Lee Settle Collection)
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ISBN: 1570030995 / Publisher: University of South Carolina Press, September 1995
Searching for an escape from mediocrity, the young heroine of The Clam Shell leaves her hometown of...
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Searching for an escape from mediocrity, the young heroine of The Clam Shell leaves her hometown of Canona, West Virginia, and enters a Southern women's college. She is not destined for the safe path, however; her brutal awakening comes in the form of a violent sexual assault through which she ultimately discovers her own hidden strength. Set in 1936, The Clam Shell continues the mesmerizing story Settle began in The Love Eaters.
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