Hidden Valley Road: a Novel - Softcover

Alden, Paulette

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0988518945 ISBN 13: 9780988518940

Verlag: Radiator Press, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

Lee Trammell, seventy-five, has settled into a quiet life in Blue Ridge, South Carolina. Since childhood, Lee has been weighed down by a racist legacy: his father participated in the lynching of a Black man in 1947. When he discovers his former neighbors, a Black woman named Del McBee and her twin boys, hiding out in their old house on Hidden Valley Road, he takes them in for the night. The next morning, they discover Del’s four tires have been punctured. Lee figures he knows who did it: the Dunlap lads—Matthew, Mark and Luke—who fly a huge Confederate flag in their nearby yard. When Lee visits the lads, Luke confronts him with a Civil War musket. Luke’s brother Matt shows him Luke’s room: a repository of white supremacist paraphernalia

As Lee’s involvement with the McBees deepens, he receives a letter from Margo Williamson, a married woman with whom he was in love when she was living in South Carolina. Now she writes to tell him not only of her husband’s death, but also of her feelings for Lee. He responds with one line: “Please come for a visit!”

Margo does just that, and Lee’s life takes an unexpected turn toward happiness. But that happiness, along with that of his new friends, could be shattered by the same type of prejudice and violence that shaped his life.

Set in the modern South, Hidden Valley Road is an emotionally rich and timely novel about second chances late in life, unlikely friendships, the persistence of love, and the precariousness of the world we live in.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Radiator Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0988518945
• ISBN 13: 9780988518940
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 318
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