Whistling Past the Graveyard Whistling Past the Graveyard

Whistling Past the Graveyard

    • 4.5 • 251 Ratings
    • $13.99

Publisher Description

From an award-winning author comes a wise and tender coming-of-age story about a nine-year-old girl who runs away from her Mississippi home in 1963, befriends a lonely woman suffering loss and abuse, and embarks on a life-changing road trip.

Whistling past the graveyard. That’s what Daddy called it when you did something to keep your mind off your most worstest fear...

In the summer of 1963, nine-year-old Starla Claudelle runs away from her strict grandmother’s Mississippi home. Starla’s destination is Nashville, where her mother went to become a famous singer, abandoning Starla when she was three. Walking a lonely country road, Starla accepts a ride from Eula, a black woman traveling alone with a white baby. Now, on the road trip that will change her life forever, Starla sees for the first time life as it really is—as she reaches for a dream of how it could one day be.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2013
July 2
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
320
Pages
PUBLISHER
Gallery Books
SELLER
Simon & Schuster Digital Sales LLC
SIZE
10.6
MB

Customer Reviews

mmojala ,

Loved it!

I loved the book! Starla Claudelle is the feistiest, sassiest, toughest character of all the books I’ve read. The story was sad, happy, and touching all at the same time. Congrats to Susan Crandall!

Sleeping Beauty's iTunes ,

Loved this book

Great read!

Alfreda G ,

This book is a gem...

If I could give this book six stars I would. The 50s and 60s were an interesting time to be a child. Perfection was what everyone strived for and any family skeletons were hidden and not talked about. If you didn’t have a white picket fence you were harshly judged. I WAS Starla and to see my feelings put out there raw on the page was eye opening. It’s only looking back as an adult are you able to see why as a child why you reacted the way you did. Ms. Crandall did it right. The atmosphere, the attitudes, the prejudice, the fear....and trying to understand that as a nine year old child. Head on. Nailed it. I could not put this book down

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