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Whistling past the graveyard, Susan Crandall

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Whistling past the graveyard, Susan Crandall

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eng

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fiction

Main title

Whistling past the graveyard

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875058750

Responsibility statement

Susan Crandall

Summary

Whistling past the graveyard. That's what Daddy called it when you did something to keep your mind off your most worstest fear. ... In the summer of 1963, nine-year-old Starla Claudelle runs away from her strict grandmother's Mississippi home. Starla's destination is Nashville, where her mother went to become a famous singer, abandoning Starla when she was three. Walking a lonely country road, Starla accepts a ride from Eula, a black woman traveling alone with a white baby. Now, on the road trip that will change her life forever, Starla sees for the first time life as it really is'as she reaches for a dream of how it could one day be

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