Whistling Past the Graveyard

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Author(s)\Editor(s): Crandall, Susan – – Binding: QUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKSYearMonthDay of Publication: 20140204Standardized Book Category: Historical – GeneralLanguage: \n \n EnglishPage Count: \n \n 00336Publisher Marketing: \n \n From an award-winning author comes a wise and tender coming-of-age story about a nine-year-old girl who runs away from her Mississippi home in 1963, befriends a lonely woman suffering loss and abuse, and embarks on a life-changing road trip.Whistling past the graveyard. That’s what Daddy called it when you did something to keep your mind off your most worstest fear… In the summer of 1963, nine-year-old Starla Claudelle runs away from her strict grandmother’s Mississippi home. Starla’s destination is Nashville, where her mother went to become a famous singer, abandoning Starla when she was three. Walking a lonely country road, Starla accepts a ride from Eula, a black woman traveling alone with a white baby. Now, on the road trip that will change her life forever, Starla sees for the first time life as it really is–as she reaches for a dream of how it could one day be.