Idgie Says:
Burdy is a sequel to Mother of Rain, which was published in 2013. This latest story follows Burdy, the woman who willingly took in a small child left abandoned by death in the first book. She's a strong willed woman who lives simply and in tune with nature. But when surprise secrets raise their heads and demand attention, she has no problem leaving her small town life and heading off to France to learn what needs to be known.
Beautifully written in a clean, simple fashion. No twisty tales, somewhat wholesome in the telling. Kind people, gentle romance, man with broken soul whose secrets need to be told to heal others. The ending leaves the story open to another book in series.
Though this could be a stand alone book, I highly recommend you read Mother of Rain first. It opens so many more doors to the telling.
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Mercer University Press
September 1, 2015
Book Description:
Sequel to the award-winning MOTHER OF RAIN.
When it is a healing they
need, the people at Christian Bend, Tennessee, turn to one woman--Burdy
Luttrell. Melungeon by birth, Burdy learned the therapeutic properties
of roots from the women in her family. When Burdy discovers that Lincoln
Memorial University is hosting a class on healing roots, she persuades
her friend, Mayne, to drive her up. The two women make a fateful stop at
Laidlow Pharmacy at Bean Station where an armed gunman executes three
people and critically injures another. Burdy--the woman able to cure
others--is now fighting for her life at University of Tennessee Medical
Center in Knoxville. One thing is keeping Burdy alive--she has to tell
Rain, the boy she has cared for since birth, the secret she's kept from
him all these years.
Rain was a deaf toddler when his father Zebulon
Hurd was reported presumed dead following the Normandy Invasion. The
news sent Maizee Hurd, Rain's mother, headlong into a mental collapse
from which she never recovered. When the now grown Rain gets word that
Burdy has been shot, he leaves his job in Rhode Island and rushes back
home to Tennessee, completely unaware of Burdy's secrets and how the
shooting at Bean Station will transport them all to another time and
place--1950s, Bayeux, France.
Karen Spears Zacharias has crafted a
mesmerizing novel of tragedy and transformation, a beautiful rendering
of fact and fiction, and a tenderhearted narrative of survivors and the
battles they face.