Title: The ballad of Jessie Pearl
Description: "It's 1922, and Jessie has big plans for her future, but that's before tuberculosis strikes. Though she has no talent for cooking, cleaning, or nursing, Jessie puts her dreams on hold to help her family. She falls in love for the first time ever, and suddenly what she wants is not so simple anymore"--Page 4 of cover.
Subjects: Farm life, Tuberculosis, Fiction, Fiction, historical, general, North carolina, fiction
Places: North Carolina