Books by Carolyn Wall
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review 1: Dear Carolyn Wall..... Please please please write another book!!!!! Wow... This author sure knows how to reach down and gut you with her characters. Makes you connect with them even though you have nothing in common. This book will have you thinking about it long after it's finis...
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review 1: This book is described as a master of the Southern novel. I have to agree that the love and connection between people in this little community in False River, Mississippi was very special. Clea Shine was given away by her mama when she was a newborn baby. She could see her mo...
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review 1: Olivia has lived in her rural Kentucky home all her life, running the local grocery first with her father then with her grandson Will'm. With only minor disturbances caused by Olivia's mentally ill mother, life has been pretty quiet, if not ideal. Olivia is haunted by lost love...
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review 1: Overall, I really enjoyed this story. I loved the Olivia's, the main character and narrator's, voice and felt invested in the other characters too. I felt that the main storyline, a broken family living in KY just after the turn of the 20th century and their past, was interesti...
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review 1: This is written in the same vein as Winter Birds (Jim Grimsley) or Salvage the Bones (Jesmyn Ward); it is a look at the heartbreaks of poverty in southern America.I enjoyed Playing with Matches, the tone was good and there were some great comments on different levels of poverty a...