Burdy: A Novel
- ISBN-10
- 0881465399
- ISBN-13
- 9780881465396
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 192
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-09-01
- Author
- Karen Spears Zacharias
Description
When it is a healing they need, the people at Christian Bend, Tennessee, turn to one womanBurdy Luttrell. Melungeon by birth, Burdy learned the therapeutic properties of roots from the women in her family. When Burdy discovers that Lincoln Memorial University is hosting a class on healing roots, she persuades her friend, Mayne, to drive her up. The two women make a fateful stop at Laidlow Pharmacy where an armed gunman executes three people and critically injures Burdy. One thing is keeping Burdy aliveshe has to tell Rain, the boy she has cared for since birth, the secret shes kept from him all these years. Rain was a deaf toddler when his father Zebulon Hurd was reported presumed dead following the Normandy Invasion. When the now grown Rain gets word that Burdy has been shot, he rushes back home to Tennessee, completely unaware of Burdys secrets. Zacharias has crafted a mesmerizing novel and a tenderhearted narrative of survivors and the battles they face.
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