August 10, 1865
"... what I cannot excise from my mind is the conviction that I am guided by Destiny - or, what you would call Providence - at the most harrowing intersections of my life. What I can state without prevarication is that my current destiny was charted over the course of two short days in April '63."
Placidia is seventeen years old when she meets Major Gryffth Hockaday. Inexplicably drawn to each other in spite of their age difference, they marry the next day. Two days after that, the major is called back to duty with the Confederate army and Placidia, still more a child than an adult, is left to run a farm and mother her husband's young son. Two years later, the major returns to find that rumors about his wife have spread throughout the town, gossip that claims she bore a child and buried it on the land. Placidia does not deny the accusations, but she won't talk, bound to protect some nameless individual even as she is imprisoned and brought to trial.
Told through letters, court documents, and journal entries, this story spans two generations as characters and reader alike try to piece together what really happened while Major Hockaday was away at war.
Join the overBOOKed book club for a discussion of this title on Thursday, August 19 at 10:00 a.m. at the Cumming library. OverBOOKed meets at 10:00 a.m. every third Thursday of the month.
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Melissa
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Cumming Library
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