| Beginning with Cannonballs Contributor(s): Coupe, Jill McCroskey (Author) |
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ISBN: 1631528483 ISBN-13: 9781631528484 Publisher: She Writes Press OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Friendship - Fiction | Women - Fiction | Southern |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.65 lbs) 232 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Friendship - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - South |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: " . . . both timely and timeless in today's fraught social climate." --Necessary Fiction "This lyric novel is a gorgeous mosaic." --John Dufresne The award-winning author of True Stories at the Smoky View is back with another novel about an unusual friendship. In the 1940s, in segregated Knoxville, Tennessee, Gail (white) and Hanna (black) shared a crib in Gail's parents' house, where Hanna's mother, Sophie, was the live-in maid. When the girls were four, Sophie taught them to swim, and soon they were gleefully doing cannonballs off the diving board, playing a game they'd invented based on their favorite Billie Holiday song. By the time they're both in college, however, the two friends have lost touch with each other. A reunion in Washington, DC, sought by Gail but resented by Hanna, sets the tone for their relationship from then on. Marriage, children, and a tragic death further strain the increasingly fragile bond. How much longer can the friendship last? |
Contributor Bio(s): Coupe, Jill McCroskey: - Jill McCroskey Coupe's first job was gathering (collating) in her father's printing plant in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains. A former librarian at Johns Hopkins University, she has an MFA in Fiction from Warren Wilson College, located in the heart of the Blue Ridge. The Southern Appalachians will always feel like home to her, but so does Baltimore, where she has lived for more than thirty years. |