A parchment of leaves
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Silas House.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Interracial marriage -- Fiction; Cherokee women -- Fiction; Mountain life -- Fiction; Men, White -- Fiction; Kentucky -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "So it is that Vine, Cherokee-born and raised in the early 1900s, trains her eye on a young white man, forsaking her family and their homeland to settle in with Saul's people: his smart-as-a-whip, slow-to-love mother, Esme; his brother Aaron, a gifted banjo player, hot tempered and unpredictable; and Aaron's flightly and chattery Melungeon wife, Aidia.".

"It's a delicate negotiation into this new family and culture, one that Vine's mother had predicted would not go smoothly. But it's worse than she could have imagined. Vine is viewed as an outsider by the townspeople. Aaron, she slowly realizes, is strangely fixated on her. But what is at first difficult becomes a test of her spirit. And in the violent turn of events that ensues, she learns what it means to forgive others and, most important, how to forgive herself."--BOOK JACKET.