Blood & Bittersweet

A Novel of the American South

von Gyan Prakash Upadhyay

184 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Two girls bound by an iron oath. One stolen legacy. A river that refuses to keep its secrets.Georgia, 1952. In the red-clay bottoms along the Oconee River, Corinne Henderson and Maeve Miller share everything-from wild mint and field peas to the bone-deep knowing that the land they walk was bought with their grandfathers' blood. But when the revered local root-worker is drowned in the mill sluice by men whose power runs the county, their childhood fractures forever.Terrified of what she witnessed in the dark, Maeve flees north on a night bus with eight dollars and an old pasteboard case, determined to bury the swamp under the brick pavements of Atlanta. Reinventing herself as May, she enters the golden parlors of Sweet Auburn, marrying a rising attorney and building an elegant, unshakeable life shielded by fine linen and cultured pearls.Back in the bottoms, Corinne stays behind with the dirt. Armed only with a notched brass key, a stubborn heart-pine spirit, and an ancestral deed hidden beneath her hearth, she fights a solitary twenty-year battle against predatory timber syndicates and the drying of the wells.Atlanta, 1973. When a state water dam threatens to drown the valley beneath forty feet of lake water, the demolition order arrives bearing the signature of Maeve's own husband.With bulldozers idling at the fence line and seventy-two hours before the valley is erased from the map, Corinne steps into the marble corridors of Atlanta to confront the sister who ran. To save the ground that made them, two women must dig up the terrible truth buried beneath the mill sills-and reckon with the price of survival.Deeply atmospheric, emotionally resonant, and rich with the cadence of the rural South, Blood & Bittersweet is an unforgettable saga of friendship, generational courage, and the unyielding magnitude of blood.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798175726207
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published