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a flour sack she’d dyed with pokeweed and chicory.
‘Have more than thou showest.’”
advice given near beginning of novel
Speak less than thou knowest.’”
part of the advice
Yous. These Americans in their separate parts of their country; they seemed not to be using the same language.
lol, I felt the same when I first visited the US; it was even tougher to understand the locals throughout Britain; language is fun
When the conversations trenched, as they always did, on how much their children had grown—Don’t all children grow? What’s noteworthy about that?
made me chuckle
If the meek could inherit the earth, maybe the kind could capture the truth.
Books will remind you, Miss Hopson had said, you can make of your life what you want it to be.
“Of the thousands of acres my agent, McNamee, has purchased thus far, much of it had been overtimbered and overfarmed to the point of depletion.
sad, but another reality
just enjoy the moment, the snow, the beauty, the bells.
tried to pour warm pine needle tea between his lips. “For inflammation,”
sorghum-sweetened cake in thin layers with cooked apples and cinnamon holding the stack together.
“I’m known as a man of intellect and organization. A man whose name will be remembered in history for the creation of national parks, the saving of entire species from extinction—including, of course, the master race.
Sad, but many characters and events based on historical fact.
she’d liked to have let herself love in some far distant world where income and background and rank did not matter.
certainly a theme of the book
Madison Grant was a prominent name in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century
from the notes at end of the novel
1916 book, The Passing of the Great Race,
an actual book, still available, by Madison Grant
Ling Yong (listed also as Ling Gunn, which the author surmised was a mishearing of the Chinese name) is based on an actual man who lived in Asheville in 1895–96.
Clippings referring to his existence and apparently brutal death after this novel’s time period were deep in the city archives.
Robert Bratchett is based on an African American man who lived in the region at the time. His life ended tragically at Biltmore Junction in 1897, the year ...
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Ligue Nationale Antisémitique de France,
founded in 1889
Chinese Exclusion Act of the 1880s
lynchings of Italians in New Orle...
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another actual event
Justice has documented that the 1890s saw more lynchings of African Americans and all groups in the United Stat...
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