num_pages: 368
description: Jewel is the story of how quickly a life can change; how, like lightning, an unforeseen event can set us on a course without reason or compass.In the backwoods of Mississippi, a land of honeysuckle and grapevine, Jewel and her husband, Leston, are truly blessed; they have five fine children. When Brenda Kay is born in 1943, Jewel gives thanks for a healthy baby, last-born and most welcome.In this story of a woman's devotion to the child who is both her burden and God's singular way of smiling on her, Bret Lott has created a mother-daughter relationship of matchless intensity and beauty, and one of the finest, most indomitable heroines in contemporary American fiction.
language: English
title: Jewel
titlecomplete: Jewel
genres: Drama, Adult, Southern, Chick Lit, Adult Fiction, Novels, Family, Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Fiction
ratings_count: 37697
places: Mississippi
publisher: Washington Square Press