false 91932 0 0 686524 0743437357 9780743437356 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177197489m/686524.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177197489s/686524.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/686524.The_Lucky_Gourd_Shop 3.26 34 The Lucky Gourd Shop begins in America, where the adoptive mother of three Korean children tries to find out more about their pasts. But where she fails, we succeed; the rest of the novel takes us back a generation, to a South Korea ravaged by years of poverty and war. There we meet Mi Sook--orphan, independent spirit, and, as soon becomes clear, the children's birth mother. Found abandoned in an alley and raised like a stray in the back room of a coffee shop, Mi Sook grows up pretty, bubbly, and happy enough, but still "that rare creature in her society, one who did not draw her sense of self from fixed relationships with others." In South Korea, of course, to be without fixed relationships--to be without family--is to live in a dangerous limbo, and soon enough Mi Sook finds trouble. Throughout the events that follow, Scott's powerful narrative voice never fails to convince. In her telling, this is a story without villains; even the violent husband is no monster when we learn the intense economic and cultural pressures with which he struggles. More to the point, it's also a story without victims; as in all great works of literature, Scott's characters are made of flesh and blood, capable of agency and action and especially mistakes. This first novel succeeds on a number of levels, as an imaginative leap between nations and generations and as a snapshot of a culture in transition. Most of all, however, The Lucky Gourd Shop is a precise, affecting, and unsentimental portrait of Mi Sook herself, of hardships endured without knowing they're hardships and choices that are scarcely choices at all. --Chloe Byrne]]> 91932 3.36 78 19 2000 158655 0425212521 9780425212523 7 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172273734m/158655.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172273734s/158655.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/158655.The_Road_From_Chapel_Hill 3.67 24
From Joanna Catherine Scott comes a sweeping tale of the Civil War, unique in its perspective and exquisitely woven, in which three young Southerners worlds apart are joined in a quest for something greater than themselves.

Eugenia Mae Spotswood, the daughter of a failed aristocrat, longs to regain the life she lost. The slave Tom wants one thing: freedom. After becoming the property of Eugenia Mae, a dangerous affection grows. But he learns freedom is not something she can give him-he must fight for it himself.

Clyde Bricket, the farm boy responsible for Tom's capture, has always believed in the South. But he soon learns that sometimes the only way to redeem yourself is to fight against everything he thought he believed in.]]> 91932 3.36 78 19 2006 1298922 0312319428 9780312319427 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182594176m/1298922.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182594176s/1298922.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1298922.Cassandra_Lost 3.29 7 91932 3.36 78 19 2004 5176603 0425226026 9780425226025 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5176603.Child_of_the_South 3.00 4 From the award-winning author of The Road from Chapel Hill, a story of loyalty, duty, and love in the days following the Civil War.

Returning to characters introduced in her previous novel, acclaimed author Joanna Catherine Scott explores the terrain of a devastated South, where the war is over—but conflict lives on. Having endured years of hardship, Eugenia Mae Spotswood returns to Wilmington to find out who her mother is, only to be faced with racism and hatred…until she is befriended by the most powerful Negro leader in the state Senate.

Also driven forward are the strong-minded ex-slave Tom and his crippled former enemy Clyde Bricket. Tom spent the last years of the war working for the Union as a spy. Now, Clyde watches as his family farm slowly dies. Only if they work together can they survive…]]> 91932 3.36 78 19 2009 686522 0971408521 9780971408524 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177197488m/686522.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177197488s/686522.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/686522.Breakfast_at_the_Shangri_La 4.00 1 91932 3.36 78 19 2004 1504697 0967099447 9780967099446 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184383859m/1504697.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184383859s/1504697.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1504697.Birth_Mother 3.00 1 91932 3.36 78 19 2000 2719938 1599481073 9781599481074 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2719938.Night_Huntress 0.0 0 91932 3.36 78 19 2008 686525 3596156181 9783596156184 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177197489m/686525.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177197489s/686525.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/686525.Kleine_Schwester_Mi_Sook_ 0.0 0 91932 3.36 78 19 2003 686523 0920976468 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/686523.Coming_Down_From_Bataan 0.0 0 91932 3.36 78 19 2001 7338543 0452292670 9780452292673 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7338543-rca-13-16-copy-mixed-prepack-no-poster-id 0.0 0 66631 3.72 12854 3444 135392 3.11 203 55 91932 3.36 78 19 2007 7338545 0452292662 9780452292666 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7338545-rca-13-16-copy-mixed-prepack-w-easel-poster-id 0.0 0 66631 3.72 12854 3444 135392 3.11 203 55 91932 3.36 78 19 2007