Black Cherries

by Grace Stone Coates and Mary Clearman Blew

Book Overview

In this series of linked stories the child narrator, Veve, cannot fathom all the mysteries of her family's life together, but by watching and listening she pieces together a painful past. Played out against the backdrop of rural hardship and deprivation on the family's Kansas farm, the secret in her father's previous life eventually explains his harsh treatment of the three older children and her mother's bitterness over his countless misunderstandings...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803264291
• ISBN13: 9780803264298
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 99 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.2"