
A dauntless heroine coming of age at the turn of the twentieth century confronts the hazards of patriarchy and prejudice, and discovers the unexpected opportunities of World War I Set in rural North Carolina between the Civil War and the Great War, Love and Lament chronicles...

Set in rural North Carolina between the Civil War and World War I, Love and Lament chronicles the Hartsoe family's ex┬ traordinary hardships and misfortunes. Mary Bet, the youngest of nine children, was born the same year the first railroad arrived in their...