The Days Between the Years
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Overmountain Press
Published: November 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781570723247
Subjects: Sagas; Popular American Fiction; Fiction; Fiction - General; Biographical; Family Life
First sentence: Mrs. Trixie Goforth, getting on up in years and just lately starting to feel like it, slipped out of bed one December morning, itching to weasel her way out of the mental straightjacket her three adult children had strong-armed her into. She stepped down the hall and into the kitchen of her little brick ranch house with its green-striped awnings in Spindale, North Carolina, where she'd lived for fifty years. And where she'd live until she dropped! She let her children know it, too, every time they started up again about hauling her off to the Methodist Home.
Description: A little Southern lady, frustrated with her children's attempts to control her life, sets off on Christmas Eve, in a snowstorm, to a retirement center in the North Carolina mountains. She causes a ruckus among the residents, whom she dismisses as "geriatric elves." She gets the surprise of her life, and has an experience of profound wonder.
Table of contents: title: Letters; Stories; Pictures; A Little Incident; News; Signs and Wonders; A Discovery; The Edge of Night; The Hour of Decision; The Great Escape; The Secret Storm; Going to Town; The Vagrant; Sneaking Out; Hobo Joe; A Dog's Life; Spirits of the Forest; Names; Lovesick; Good-byes; Blackberry Summer; Pearl Harbor; Root Hog or Die; Esther; Mementoes; Epiphany