· Overview. NATIONAL BESTSELLER. A dark and riveting story of the legacies—of magic and madness, faith and secrets, passion and loss—that haunt one family across the generations. Myra Lamb is a wild girl with mysterious, haint blue eyes who grows up on remote Bloodroot Mountain. Her grandmother, Byrdie, protects her fiercely and passes down “the touch” that bewitches people Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Characters in Bloodroot rely on William Wordsworth's poetry as a source of comfort and inspiration, but echoes of his literary philosophy and poetic interests can also be found in the pages of Amy Greene's novel. Just as Bloodroot relies on memory to tell its stories, much of Wordsworth's poetry focuses on capturing moments of memory and recollection. He developed a philosophy of "two . “Amy Greene’s Bloodroot can stand proudly beside Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and Jeannette Walls’s The Glass Castle, two works which likewise examine the isometric push of the human spirit against the immovable forces of tyranny and poverty/5().
Bloodroot by Amy Greene "Amy Greene's Bloodroot can stand proudly beside Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle, two works which likewise examine the isometric push of the human spirit against the immovable forces of tyranny and bltadwin.ru's novel has everything I savor in fiction."—Wally Lamb. Named for a flower whose blood-red sap possesses. Complete summary of Amy Greene's Bloodroot. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Bloodroot. The introduction, questions, and suggestions for further reading that follow are designed to enhance your reading group's discussion of Amy Greene's compelling debut novel, Bloodroot—a sweeping, multigenerational story set in the hardscrabble hollows of eastern Tennessee. 1.
By Lisa Fugard. Don’t be misled by the dreamy pastoral image on the dust jacket of Amy Greene’s first novel. “Bloodroot” takes place in Appalachia, and, yes, Greene lovingly describes its. Bloodroot is the best Appalachian novel to come out of the region in a long, long while, ushering in a fresh new voice that speaks for a whole generation." “Haunting Woven into [ Bloodroot] is mountain magic, family history, rural poverty and each generation’s effort to make things better for their children. Greene’s debut shows three generations of an eastern Tennessee family struggling against abusive men and narrow middle-class values that try to destroy their unusually active spirits. In the s, Byrdie raises her granddaughter Myra on Bloodroot Mountain.
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