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Original Title:	Bloodroot
ISBN:	0307269868 (ISBN13: 9780307269867)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Smoky Mountains(United States) Tennessee(United States)
Literary Awards:	Weatherford Award for Fiction (2010)

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Named for a flower whose blood-red sap possesses the power both to heal and poison, Bloodroot is a stunning fiction debut about the legacies—of magic and madness, faith and secrets, passion and loss—that haunt one family across the generations, from the Great Depression to today.

The novel is told in a kaleidoscope of seamlessly woven voices and centers around an incendiary romance that consumes everyone in its path: Myra Lamb, a wild young girl with mysterious, haint blue eyes who grows up on remote Bloodroot Mountain; her grandmother Byrdie Lamb, who protects Myra fiercely and passes down “the touch” that bewitches people and animals alike; the neighbor boy who longs for Myra yet is destined never to have her; the twin children Myra is forced to abandon but who never forget their mother’s deep love; and John Odom, the man who tries to tame Myra and meets with shocking, violent disaster. Against the backdrop of a beautiful but often unforgiving country, these lives come together—only to be torn apart—as a dark, riveting mystery unfolds.

With grace and unflinching verisimilitude, Amy Greene brings her native Appalachia—and the faith and fury of its people—to rich and vivid life. Here is a spellbinding tour de force that announces a dazzlingly fresh, natural-born storyteller in our midst.

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Title	:	Bloodroot
Author	:	Amy Greene
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 291 pages
Published	:	January 12th 2010 by Knopf (first published January 1st 2010)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Magical Realism. American. Southern

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It doesnt take as much to poison a horse as people think.I might have won her respect. Or maybe she smells my acceptance of the truth that shes tried to tell me all along. Some creatures are just meant to be left alone. They cant be held on to, even if we love them more than anything.It is sentences like these that reach out and grab you , pulling you into this book, a stunning new novel by Amy Greene. The book is an epic story of several generations living near Bloodroot Mountain. Its not a

In a nutshell: the lit-fic version of a bizarro V.C. Andrews multi-generational saga. There's a lot of violence (particularly against womenfolk), a lot of backwoods superstition (or is that mysticism?), & a lot of unhappy, cyclical D00M.Stylistically, I can't give this book less than 4 stars. I loved the author's depiction of rural Appalachia, & she can definitely write. I really liked how she managed to give the narrators a regional twang without resorting to phonetic dialect &

Amy is an author from my hometown of Morristown, TN. Her book's already getting a lot of good press! I had the pleasure of meeting her at her first reading at Walters State. My friend won an ARC and I borrowed it from her.I grew up in Morristown, TN, which sounds an awful lot like Millertown, one of the settings in this book. So as I was entered this beautifully crafted novel, I felt like I was returning home again myself. The lives of the characters are not easy, and sometimes their story is

I was afraid Bloodroot would sentimentalize Appalachia for the refined reading palate, but Amy Greene does not (often) slip into this false romance. Don't let the jacket fool youBloodroot is vicious, and by the second half of the novel, I had to remind myself to breathe while reading. The Dorothy Allison comparisons, by the way, are perfectly apt.

Wow. Really...wow. A dark and twisted fate of generations entangled together through a mountain that is enticing, yet incredibly haunting. Amy Greene had me so wrapped up in this magical and beautiful world of family legends and folklore that I was brought to tears (on the subway) when I realized it was going to fall to pieces. You weave in and out of past/present, magic/madness, hate/love, safety/danger. Within this back and forth construction, the utterly depressing present day reality for two

Don't be surprised if you see Amy Greene's Bloodroot make its way onto several of the literary prize short lists later this year. It's that good; a wonderfully engrossing story by a debut novelist who writes with amazing clarity, emotion, authenticity and beauty.Bloodroot is a plant that has the power both to cure or kill; it's the central symbol throughout a novel rich with dichotomy (love and hate, life and death). Bloodroot is also the name of the mountain in dirt-poor East Tennessee where

Wow. After the slightly mixed reviews from Goodreads and the kind of cheesy, vague (and somewhat misleading, I think) description on the front flap, I was expecting this to be a decent, folksy read. But I just finished it and I can't stop thinking about it.There's something haunting about the book. My heart just broke for all the characters. The writing was breathtakingly beautiful and the author even managed to weave in the accents and local ways of speaking without sounding contrived or making