After eleven-year-old Jane-Ery loses her father in a sawmill accident, Grandpap comes down from Salter's Mountain to live with her and her mother. To Jane-Ery's surprise, Grandpap's funny ways and strange stories bring her a comfort she never expected. He tells her about Day's Bottom, "e;a place of light and wonderment"e; that has "e;anything a body could ever want."e; Jane-Ery wonders: Could she find Daddy there? So begins her search for a new kind of understanding of her father's death. This gently told, beautifully rendered novel brings to life a time and place readers will come to love, Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains in the 1950s.
| ISBN: | 9780822571971 |
| Publication date: | 1st August 2006 |
| Author: | Ransom, Candice |
| Publisher: | Lerner Publishing Group |
| Format: | Ebook (PDF) |