Beneath the pines
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Janet Beard.
Publisher: Two Dollar Radio
Published: 2008
Place of publication: [S.l.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780976389545
Subjects: Teachers -- Fiction; Single women -- Fiction; Appalachia (Va.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In 1957, Mary Alice was a rebellious teenager in love with a rich Yankee boy who had just moved to her small Virginia mountain town-much to the chagrin of her God-fearing mother, Lavinia. By 2004, Mary Alice has become a spinster biology teacher who hasn't spoken to her mother in over forty years. When Lavinia dies, Mary Alice's niece, Claire, inherits the family house and moves to Virginia, bringing along a deep curiosity about her family's dark past-and plenty of emotional baggage of her own.