03864cam a2200757 4500 560890249 TxAuBib 20220616120000.0 ||||||s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781616202019 1616202017 B00845FRBU Amazon 553cbaac-7cfa-4c6e-b273-2dd512a7e7ca OverDrive (Reserve ID) 915119 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib McCorkle, Jill. Tending to Virginia [Libby eBook] : A Novel. Algonquin Books, 2012. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 3561kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. dysfunctional family. difficult pregnancy. unfulfilled dreams. Multigenerational. Southern fiction. family stories. womens fiction. mental illness. relationships. strong women. Family Saga . small town. depression. womens lit. parenting. Womanhood. pregnancy. new south. Folklore. marriage. domestic. romance. Divorce. tornado. regrets. toxemia. family. legacy. Humor. Death. widow. love. loss. sex. HTML:<p>This is the story of Virginia Turner Ballard, know to her North Carolina relatives as Ginny Sue. It's also the story of her mother, her grandmother, her great aunts, her closest cousin—three generations of women who gather around Virginia to help her at the end of a hard pregnancy, to tend to her, to help her prepare for the fourth generation. This kind of family attendance, this kind of tending to, is Southern to the core, offering, as it does, the occasion for reviving and trading entwined family stories. <i>Tending to Virginia</i> is a novel of one family's most important stories—how they happened, how they were perceived, how they were remembered, how their truth is revealed. In the end, an eruption of family confessions becomes revelation—revelation as legacy, passed down among a family's women; revelation as a family's gift in celebration of growing up, a process Jill McCorkle knows lasts into old age. In her characterizations of these vivid women playing out their generational roles in the contemporary South, McCorkle presents us with a powerful insight—that the strongest family bonds are, for better or worse, as often created by what is held back as by what is spoken.</p>. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-06-16 20:00:02. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1953-1/553/CBA/AC/TendingtoVirginia.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=553CBAAC-7CFA-4C6E-B273-2DD512A7E7CA&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1953-1/553/CBA/AC/TendingtoVirginia.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=553CBAAC-7CFA-4C6E-B273-2DD512A7E7CA&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1953-1/553/CBA/AC/TendingtoVirginia.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=553CBAAC-7CFA-4C6E-B273-2DD512A7E7CA&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)