At the Edge of the Orchard

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Call Number: Fiction / Chevalier, Tracy, Adult Book / Fiction / Historical / Chevalier, Tracy
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Pittsfield Branch, Traverwood Branch, Westgate Branch

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James Goodenough, whose family had originally settled in Connecticut from England brings his family to Ohio to carve out a new life for them in the Black Swamp in 1838. As swamp fever gradually picks off their children and they wrestle daily with survival. This course will see their family engulfed in tragedy and fifteen years later we pick up with their youngest son, Robert who has been running west since the trying to escape his memories of what happened, taking solace in a very different kind of tree the redwoods and sequoias of California. But Roberts past catches up with him and hes forced to confront what hes running from and work out for himself that you cant run for ever.

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GOOD submitted by kevinhe on July 26, 2019, 12:13pm a very nice book.

A good read submitted by bec on August 8, 2022, 11:47am The book starts with the Goodenough family as they struggle to make their way- and as the parents struggle with one another- in the (real, but now mostly extinct) Great Black Swamp of northwest Ohio. It follows their son as he leaves the family and travels west, escaping his memories and falling in love with tree collecting. Chevalier depicts the strange period where imperial collectors are seeking "exotic" plants from around the world and bringing them home to their own collections, but also keeps her focus on the complex characters as they fall into and out of each other's lives.