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The Education of Dixie Dupree - Donna Everhart

By Donna Everhart

Release Date: 2016-10-25

Genre: Fiction & Literature

4.5 (110 ratings)
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Composed in a voice as sure and resonant as that of The Secret Life of Bees, this remarkable debut from the author of The Saints of Swallow Hill is a haunting and heartfelt story of mothers and daughters, the guilt and pain that pass between generations, and the truths that are impossible to hide ā€“ especially from ourselves.

In 1969, Dixie Dupree is eleven years old and already an expert liar. Sometimes the lies are for her mama Evieā€™s sakeā€”to explain away a bruise brought on by her quick-as-lightning temper. And sometimes the lies are to spite Evie, who longs to leave her unhappy marriage in Perry County, Alabama, and return to her beloved New Hampshire. But for Dixie and her brother, Alabama is home, a place of pine-scented breezes and hot, languid afternoons.

Though Dixie is learning that the family she once believed was happy has deep fractures, even her vivid imagination couldnā€™t concoct the events about to unfold. Dixie records everything in her diaryā€”her parentsā€™ fights, her fatherā€™s drinking and his unexplained departure, and the arrival of Uncle Ray. Only when Dixie desperately needs help and is met with disbelief does she realize how much damage her past lies have done. But she has courage and a spirit that may yet prevail, forcing secrets into the open and allowing her to forgive and become whole again.

Narrated by her young heroine in a voice as sure and resonant as The Secret Life of Beesā€™ Lily or Bastard Out of Carolinaā€™s Bone, Donna Everhartā€™s remarkable debut is a story about mothers and daughters, the guilt and pain that pass between generations, and the truths that are impossible to hide, especially from ourselves.

The Education of Dixie Dupree - Donna Everhart

By Donna Everhart

Release Date: 2016-10-25

Genre: Fiction & Literature

4.5 (110 ratings)
Read Download
Composed in a voice as sure and resonant as that of The Secret Life of Bees, this remarkable debut from the author of The Saints of Swallow Hill is a haunting and heartfelt story of mothers and daughters, the guilt and pain that pass between generations, and the truths that are impossible to hide ā€“ especially from ourselves.

In 1969, Dixie Dupree is eleven years old and already an expert liar. Sometimes the lies are for her mama Evieā€™s sakeā€”to explain away a bruise brought on by her quick-as-lightning temper. And sometimes the lies are to spite Evie, who longs to leave her unhappy marriage in Perry County, Alabama, and return to her beloved New Hampshire. But for Dixie and her brother, Alabama is home, a place of pine-scented breezes and hot, languid afternoons.

Though Dixie is learning that the family she once believed was happy has deep fractures, even her vivid imagination couldnā€™t concoct the events about to unfold. Dixie records everything in her diaryā€”her parentsā€™ fights, her fatherā€™s drinking and his unexplained departure, and the arrival of Uncle Ray. Only when Dixie desperately needs help and is met with disbelief does she realize how much damage her past lies have done. But she has courage and a spirit that may yet prevail, forcing secrets into the open and allowing her to forgive and become whole again.

Narrated by her young heroine in a voice as sure and resonant as The Secret Life of Beesā€™ Lily or Bastard Out of Carolinaā€™s Bone, Donna Everhartā€™s remarkable debut is a story about mothers and daughters, the guilt and pain that pass between generations, and the truths that are impossible to hide, especially from ourselves.

More by Donna Everhart

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The Moonshiner's Daughter

The Education of Dixie Dupree

The Road to Bittersweet

When the Jessamine Grows

Women of a Promiscuous Nature

The Forgiving Kind

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