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"Indigo Field brims with multigenerational drama, earthy
spirituality, and deeply imagined characters you are unlikely to
forget." —Sue Monk Kidd, author of The Invention of Wings, The
Book of Longings, and The Secret Life of Bees In the rural South, a
retired colonel in an upscale retirement community grieves the
sudden death of his wife on the tennis court. On the other side of
the highway, an elderly Black woman grieves the murder of her niece
by a white man. Between them lies an abandoned field where three
centuries of crimes are hidden, and only she knows the explosive
secrets buried there. When the colonel runs into her car, causing a
surprising amount of damage, it sparks a feud that sets loose the
spirits in the Field, both benevolent and vengeful. In prose
that’s been called “dazzling” and “mesmerizing,” in the
animated voices of trees and birds and people, in Southern-voiced
storytelling as deeply layered as that of Pat Conroy, Marjorie
Hudson lays out the boundaries of a field that contains the soul of
the South, and leads us to a day of reckoning.
Marjorie Hudson continues her search for Virginia Dare, the first
English child born on American soil, who disappeared with the Lost
Colony of Roanoke Island more than 425 years ago. In this second
edition, Hudson takes us deeper into her research and travels,
bringing us closer to her discoveries, both old and new.
Like birds blown off course, the characters in these stories need a
place to roost-somewhere to settle long enough to repair their
ragged hearts-and they find it near the banks of the mythical
Sissipahaw River. In the centerpiece story, an eighteenth-century
Eno Indian tells of the fiery fate of his adopted father, English
explorer John Lawson. In the surrounding stories, the age-old
conflicts between newcomer and old-timer play out as twenty-first
century retirees, carnies, runaways, heartbroken women, and farmers
stumble into new lives and new insights in Ambler County, North
Carolina. "Hudson's prose is pure as birdsong," says novelist Doris
Betts. "These fine stories of change and discovery are a field
guide to the human species in transition."
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