Kaye Gibbons Ordre des livres (chronologique)

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Der Kampf ums Auskommen, die Freuden und Nöte alltäglicher, bisweilen etwas verschrobener Menschen in einer kleinen Gemeinde in North Carolina zur Zeit der Wirtschaftskrise. Im Mittelpunkt steht Betty, die Tochter eines Quäkers und einer irischen Katholikin.

SIGHTS UNSEEN is an unforgettable tale of unconditional love---and of a Southern family's desperatesearch for normalcy in the midst of madness. It is the story of Maggie, "the Barnes woman with all the problems"...and Hattie, a child struggling to find a place for herself in her damaged mother's heart.

North Carolina zu Anfang dieses Jahrhunderts: Charlie Kate, die resolute Grossmutter, wirkt als begnadetes medizinisches Talent mit ihrer Urwuchsmedizin zum Segen des Landstrichs, vor allem der geistig und materiell weniger begüterten Menschen.

When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was twenty and he was forty. She was the carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry and he was a skinny tenant farmer who had never owned anything in his life. She was newly widowed after a disastrous marriage to a brutal drifter. He had never asked a woman to do more than help him hitch a mule. They didn't fall in love so much as they simply found each other and held on for dear life.Kaye Gibbons's first novel, Ellen Foster , won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and the praise of writers from Walker Percy to Eudora Welty. In A Virtuous Woman , Gibbons transcends her early promise, creating a multilayered and indelibly convincing portrait of two seemingly ill-matched people who somehow miraculously make a marriage.

Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young child searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children