Charms for Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons

Charms for Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons

A family without men, the Birches live gloriously offbeat lives in the lush, green backwoods of North Carolina. Radiant, headstrong Sophia and her shy, brilliant daughter, Margaret, possess powerful charms to ward off loneliness, despair, and the human misery that often beats a path to their door. And they are protected by the eccentric wisdom and muscular love of the remarkable matriarch Charlie Kate, a solid, uncompromising, self-taught healer who treats everything from boils to broken bones to broken hearts.

Sophia, Margaret, and Charlie Kate find strength in a time when women almost always depended on men, and their bond deepens as each one experiences love and loss during World War I. Charms for the Easy Life is a passionate, luminous, and exhilarating story about embracing what life has to offer . even if it means finding it in unconventional ways.

This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

Gibbons, Kaye: - Kaye Gibbons was born in Nash County, North Carolina and attended Rocky Mount Senior High School, North Carolina State University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her first novel, Ellen Foster, was awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction of the American Academy and Institute of the Arts and Letters and a special citation from the Ernest Hemingway Foundation. She has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and was recently awarded the PEN/Revson Fellowship for A Cure for Dreams. She is writer-in-residence at the Library of North Carolina State University. She and her husband, Michael, and their three daughters Mary, Leslie and Louise, live in Raleigh.

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ISBN 13	9780380722709
ISBN 10	0380722704
Title	Charms for Easy Life
Author	Kaye Gibbons
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Avon Books
Year published	1994-04-01
Number of pages	304
Prizes	Short-listed for Book Sense Book of the Year Award (Adult) 1994, Short-listed for Book Sense Book of the Year Award (Adult) 1995
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