num_pages: 363
description: A dusty box discovered in the wreckage of a once prosperous plantation on Agate Hill in North Carolina contains the remnants of an extraordinary diaries, letters, poems, songs, newspaper clippings, court records, marbles, rocks, dolls, and bones. It's through these treasured mementos that we meet Molly Petree.Raised in those ruins and orphaned by the Civil War, Molly is a refugee who has no interest in self-pity. When a mysterious benefactor appears out her father's past to rescue her, she never looks back.Spanning half a century, On Agate Hill follows Molly’s passionate, picaresque journey through love, betrayal, motherhood, a murder trial―and back home to Agate Hill under circumstances she never could have imagined.
language: English
title: On Agate Hill: A Novel
titlecomplete: On Agate Hill: A Novel
genres: Historical, Audiobook, Coming Of Age, 19th Century, Southern, War, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Adult Fiction, Civil War
ratings_count: 3802
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award
publisher: A Shannon Ravenel Book