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Back Creek
By: Leslie GoetschImprint: Bancroft Press
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It's the summer of 1975. Eighteen-year-old Grace Barnett knows she should be preparing to leave for college in September. But a strange Memorial Day boating accident on the creek near her Virginia home-she's the only witness to the apparent suicide-kicks off a series of events that will define her family's future as well as her emerging view of life. On the very day of the victim's funeral, Grace's older sister, Lillian, absent from the family for the past five years, suddenly reappears. Unfortunately, it is also the day Grace's mother chooses to quietly walk out on her family, leaving Grace to act as the mediator between her prodigal sister and her badly wounded father. As the summer wears on, Grace finds herself thinking less about college and more about how to mend the rifts in her family. She turns to her neighbor, Cal, a recently returned Vietnam vet, to help sort through her problems. After weathering her sister's unexpected return and pregnancy, her father's budding alcoholism, and Cal's war-induced neurosis, Grace decides to set off to rural North Carolina with the intention of bringing her mother back home.
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| Title of eBook: Back Creek | |
| Release Date: 08-24-2010 | |
| Publisher: Bancroft Press |
This eBook download is available in the following formats:
| Parent title | Back Creek |
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| Encrypted (DRM) | Yes |
| SKU | 9781890862879 |
| File size | 298 |
| Internet Security | n/a |
| Printing | Not allowed |
| Copying | Not allowed |
| Read aloud | No Sys requirements Download reader |
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Back Creek
Chapter One
I'd stayed up late drinking beer with Cal. As I lay in my grandmother's old pine-spool bed, my head full of cobwebs, I alternately dozed and half-listened to the early morning sounds of Back Creek.The Creek knew a deep peace that last Sunday morning of May 1975. I could feel it even in my little room on the third floor. Everybody said my great-grandfather had been crazy to build a three-story brick house on low land with a history of flooding, but we Barnetts have never been known for willingly following the advice of others. Personally, I was glad he hadn't listened to the naysayers, because I loved my little room, with its outcropping of small windows facing the Creek. I had the best view in the house—maybe the best view on our side of the Creek. And I loved the Creek.
As I struggled up from the sheets and summer quilt, I heard a gas-powered whine.
I wasn't sure where I'd placed my glasses. It's not like I'm blind without them, but I can see far-away things much better with them on, and I wear them most of the time.
The whine outside grew louder as I leaned over the side of the bed, feeling for my glasses along the edge of the braided rug, just below the ancient dust ruffle. My mess of brown hair fell over my face. Just as my fingertips reached the stiff metal of my wire-rims, my legs kicked up and I landed butt-first on the floor. Sitting up, I flipped my hair back and pulled the frames over my ears. Somewhere in my fog, I realized that the whine had become a roar.
I bolted to the windows and peered out. The window glass seemed even wavier than usual, and the sun's glare more intense. I turned my head and glimpsed only dead calm directly b
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