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Mama's Shoes is now available!!
It's been a long four years, but my debut novel is now available in hardcover, softcover, and ebook from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Abbott Press!By the time Sylvia Richardson is eighteen, she has buried her parents; given birth to a daughter; and become a widow. It is 1942, and World War II has destroyed Sylvia’s dream of dancing in red heels through life to the melody of a Hank Snow record. Instead, she is raising her daughter, Sassy, alone in the coal mining town she vowed to leave behind.
By 1955, thirteen-year-old Sassy has been brought up on a stiff dose of Mama’s lessons on how to be a lady—even though Mama drinks, smokes, and dates a myriad of men. But everything changes the day a woman accuses Sylvia of trying to steal her husband, forcing Sassy to come to terms with her Mama’s harsh teen years. For Sylvia, only the support of kith and kin can rescue her from her mistakes. Mama’s Shoes is a haunting saga of love, despair, and forgiveness as a cadence of female voices weaves a spell of mountain lore and secrets, defines family as more than blood kin, and proves second chances can bring happiness.
“An absolutely wonderful novel, its setting a beautifully realized small Appalachian coal town, its characters so vivid they’re practically jumping off the page.”
Lee Smith
Author of Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-eyed Stranger and The Last Girls
In Mama’s Shoes, immensely talented debut novelist Rebecca Elswick weaves an intriguing tale of buried secrets at times both haunting and humorous, with a cast of strong Southern women so real that I could almost hear them speaking to me...
Amy Greene, Author of Bloodroot
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Comment by Amy Isaman on October 28, 2011 at 6:56pm -
Congratulations! That's so exciting - it looks good. I just added it to my book clubs potential reads list. We're discussing choices in a few weeks, and hopefully everyone else will agree with me.
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