num_pages: 254
description: In the verdant backwoods of North Carolina, in a sad and singular era, the Birches are unique among women of their time-living gloriously rich it decidedly offbeat lives in a private world ahandoned by men. And though misery often heats a path to their door, headstrong Sophia and her y, brilliant daughter Margaret possess charms to ward off loneliness and despair-thanks to the uncompromising strength, uncommon wisdom, and muscular love of a remarkable matriarch and self-taught healer who calls herself Charlie Kate.In Charms for the Easy Life, Kaye Gibbons has created a luminous, truthtelling novel that gives life to her most passionate and toughminded women yet.
language: English
title: Charms for the Easy Life
titlecomplete: Charms for the Easy Life
genres: Fiction, Book Club, Literature, Adult, Chick Lit, Novels, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction, Southern
ratings_count: 12592
publisher: Harper Perennial