Adelaide Piper
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
“With humor and a nice southern accent…a fine follow-up to her highlypraised first novel, Grace at Love Tide.”
–Booklist, starred review
The year is 1989 and dark currents lurk beneath the smooth surface of theelite Virginia campus where Adelaide Piper has come to study. Her poeticsensibility and idealism only irritate the socialites and cynics who notice herat all.
After a heartbreaking loss of innocence, Adelaide must navigate between hergenteel Southern upbringing and the gritty realities of a new generation.
Ultimately Adelaide must return to the very ground she once cursed, findinga deeper appreciation for her Southern heritage, however broken and imperfect.
Featured in Southern Living's Books of the South
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Debutante Adelaide Piper grows up in the small industrial community of Williamstown, S.C., with dreams of attending a faraway prestigious college and honing her poetry skills. She soon arrives at Nathaniel Buxton University, an elite liberal arts school in the mountains of Virginia, only to discover it to be more about fraternity parties and fashion than learning. When a hazing incident goes awry, one promising life is snuffed out and another ruined. Then, a casual date turns ugly, and Adelaide loses her moorings. Her parents aren't helpful: Dad is obsessed with an Amway-type pyramid scheme; her mother with her failing marriage and two difficult younger daughters. There's more fodder for tragedy perhaps too much as one of Adelaide's best friends grapples with an eating disorder and another grieves an abortion. As she discovers religious faith in a conversion scene that is expected, but nicely done Adelaide begins to recover the core of who she is. Hart's faith-based debut is intelligent and promising.
