Adelaide Piper“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 |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 8 |
Section 3 | 80 |
Section 4 | 86 |
Section 5 | 103 |
Section 6 | 129 |
Section 7 | 142 |
Section 8 | 158 |
Section 10 | 205 |
Section 11 | 219 |
Section 12 | 224 |
Section 13 | 278 |
Section 14 | 288 |
Section 15 | 299 |
Section 16 | 315 |
Section 17 | 327 |
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