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Atmospheric and searingly honest, GodPretty in the Tobacco Field is Coal Miner's Daughter meets Winter's Bone in a gripping tale of tender love and loss.

Nameless, Kentucky, in 1969 is a hardscrabble community where jobs are few and poverty is a simple fact - just like the hot Appalachian breeze or the pests that can wipe out a tobacco field in days. RubyLyn Bishop is luckier than some. Her God-fearing uncle, Gunnar, has a short fuse and high expectations, but he's given her a good home ever since she was orphaned at the age of five. Yet now, a month shy of her 16th birthday, RubyLyn itches for more.

Maybe it's something to do with the paper fortune-tellers RubyLyn has been making for townsfolk, each covered with beautifully wrought, prophetic drawings. Or perhaps it's because of Rainey Ford, an African American neighbor who works alongside her in the tobacco field and with whom she has a kinship despite her uncle's worrisome shadow and the town's disapproval. RubyLyn's predictions are just wishful thinking, not magic at all, but through them she's imagining life as it could be, away from the prejudice and hardship that ripple through Nameless.

©2016 Kim Michele Richardson (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Coming of Age Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Tobacco Smoking
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The story had a good pace. But as you are really getting into it, BANG! And just like that. it's over.

Abrupt Ending

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I thoroughly enjoyed everything about this book. I wanted so much for history to not repeat itself for Ruby-Lyn and Rainey, but given the time .. 💔. I will look gif more good listens from Kim Michele Richardson.

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The author is amazing at hooking you in and leaving you wanting more. The narrator does a great job as well.

Absolutely loved it!

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The writer puts the listener right into the surroundings of the story.

The narration was excellent!

Excellent story

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highly recommend
an excellent coming of age, coming to grips tale
lovely narration and pacing

beautifully woven

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