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Title details for The Saints of Swallow Hill by Donna Everhart - Available

The Saints of Swallow Hill

by Donna Everhart
Amy Melissa Bentley
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During the Great Depression, labor camps crop up in remote areas throughout the American South. Destitute workers live under terrible conditions. Trapped in these isolated locations, workers are entirely dependent on the often greedy, abusive camp owners who provide food and housing at grossly inflated prices. But for the most desperate among America's vast unemployed, these camps are often the last and only option.

This much is true for three individuals whose lives intersect in the deep woods of Georgia at the Swallow Hill turpentine camp in 1932. For Rae Lynn Cobb, a young woman disguised as a man, Swallow Hill offers distance and anonymity from those who would wrongly imprison her for killing her husband. For a charming bachelor named Del Reese, it's a place where backbreaking work might drown out memories of a recent trauma.

But Swallow Hill is no easy haven. The camp is ruled by a sadistic boss named Crow and the greedy commissary owner Otis Riddle, a man who takes out his frustrations on his wife, Cornelia. Del and "Ray Cobb" are tested as they struggle to survive harsh, brutal conditions. As Rae Lynn forges a deeper friendship with Del and Cornelia, she begins to envision a path out of the camp. But she will have to come to terms with her past before she can open herself to a new life and seize the chance to begin again . . .

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  • Release date

    January 25, 2022

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      • ISBN: 9781666186338
      • File size: 352307 KB
      • Duration: 12:13:58

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      June 1, 2022

      Everhart (The Moonshiner's Daughter) returns to the South in this novel. The soft Southern accent and even, subtle tones of narrator Amy Melissa Bentley give life to the voices of the characters inhabiting this novel, which interrogates the brutality of a turpentine camp. It's 1932 when Rae, pretending to be a man, and Del meet while both are tapping pine trees in the camp. They both run afoul of Crow, a sadistic boss who has them placed in a hot box, nearly killing them. When Rae's identity is discovered, Del, Rae, and the abused wife of the camp commissary owner flee one night and escape to a better life on land that has been in Del's family for several generations. VERDICT Recommended for libraries that collect in the areas of historical and Southern fiction. There are some disturbing abuse scenes.--David Faucheux

      Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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