This novel, a sweet song of innocence, is steeped in folklore and tradition. The setting is a remote area somewhere along the Virginia/West Virginia border. The townsfolk supect a throwback woman lives somewhere up in the hills. She is difficult to spot. However, some claim to have seen this elusive woman with flyaway hair the color of dry oak leaves dragging herself through the woods. The Cassell brothers know first hand about this woman, for from the very night she arrived on their doorstep, their lives would never be the same. This is the story of that woman, Mary Hannah McCutcheon, and how she became one of the secrets of Indian Knob.
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Born in Ohio, reared in West Virginia, Heidi Hartwiger has a dep reverence for the earth and an abiding love for Appalachia and its people. Now dividing her time betwen Virginia and the Outer Banks of North Carolina, she works as a storyteller, teacher, and editor of BEACON, a creative arts magazine from the Center for Community Learning at Christopher Newport University.
She has written many prize winning short stories and two highly successful non-fiction books-A Gift of Herbs(a 1995 Rodale Press Book Club selection) and All Join Hands:The Forgotton Art of Playing With Children.
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The Secrets of Indian Knob,
By Nancy Powell (Virginia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Secrets of Indian Knob (Paperback)
This book is a story about people who appear to live a simple, uncomplicated life. But after Mary Hannah, the main character, is thrust by accident into the life of Indian Knob, she realizes that things aren't what they appear to be and life in this mountain region is far from simple. What Mary Hannah does find in Indian Knob is a place that knows about survival and loyalty, acceptance and love.The author writes with a deep sense of understanding for the mountain areas of Virginia/West Virginia and celebrates all that is unique about this place and its peoples.
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