Someplace Like Home: A Novel by Bobi Conn Hardcover Book

Description: Someplace Like Home by Bobi Conn A mother and daughter in Appalachia unpack the traumas of the past in a powerful and reflective novel about family, healing, and moving on by the author of A Woman in Time.Jenny Caudill grows up in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in a home that feels more like a trap. Shy, ignored by boys, and wearing her sisters hand-me-downs, Jenny spends her time lost in the promises of romantic pop songs and daydreaming in the back seat of her daddys junked Bel Air. Theres got to be more to life.When she catches the eye of the older Rob Lewis, a dangerous relationship begins. Her mothers warnings go ignored. After a brush with death and an impulsive marriage in Tennessee, Jenny becomes a mother herself. But her love story is far from the one she envisioned. Trading one trap for another darker one, she is stuck between trying to avoid her husbands violent moods and taking an unknown risk by grabbing her children, running, and trying to find a way forward.As Jennys daughter, Charlie, comes of age, she strives to understand the choices her mother made, to confront the traumas that shaped both their lives, and to overcome any limits the forces of the past have imposed. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Bobi Conn is the author of A Woman in Time and the memoir In the Shadow of the Valley. Born in Morehead, Kentucky, and raised in a nearby holler, Bobi developed a deep connection with the land and her Appalachian roots. She obtained her bachelors degree at Berea College, the first school in the American South to integrate racially and to teach men and women in the same classrooms. She also attended graduate school, where she earned a masters degree in English with an emphasis in creative writing. In addition to writing, Bobi loves playing pool, telling jokes, cooking, being in the woods, attempting to grow a garden, and spending time with her incredible children. Review "Sometimes true stories can be the hardest to believe, which makes them that much harder to tell. In this fictionalized account of her family, Bobi Conn immerses us in the lives of three generations of Appalachian women, weaving their trials, tragedies, and personal triumphs through a gritty and all-too-real world. At times heartbreaking, at others heartwarming, this story is an ode to the women not of a particular time but of a particular place, and Bobi Conn shares it all with style and care." —R. Dean Johnson, author of Californium "In this companion work to her much-lauded memoir, In the Shadow of the Valley, author Bobi Conn relates in her beautiful, clean voice the backstory of her familys history in the mountains of eastern Kentucky. Someplace Like Home is a fictionalized account of the lives of her grandmother and mother, detailing the remarkable circumstances they endured in a fierce, isolated, often traumatic environment that was, at the same time, possessed of a wild and staggering beauty. Conn is among the most moving and talented of our Appalachian authors. It was an honor to read this book." —Kimmery Martin, author of The Queen of Hearts and Doctors and Friends Details ISBN166250697X Author Bobi Conn Publisher Amazon Publishing Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781662506970 Format Hardcover Subtitle A Novel Country of Publication United States Audience General Publication Date 2024-05-21 US Release Date 2024-05-21 Imprint Little A Place of Publication Seattle Pages 254 Alternative 9781662506987 ISBN-10 166250697X UK Release Date 2024-05-21 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:160036611;

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