02614cam a22003738i 4500 22677754 MeVbMML 20240829120218.0 220702s2023 ilu 000 0 eng 2022028710 9781728278049 (hardcover) 9781728257150 (trade paperback) 9781728257174 (epub) DLC eng rda DLC DLC pcc PS3603.H8835 L37 2023 813/.6 23/eng/20220702 Church, Meagan, author. 13497 The last Carolina girl : a novel / Meagan Church. 2303 Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, [2023] 305 pages, 21 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "A searing book club novel for fans of Where the Crawdad's Sing and The Girls in the Stilt House following one girl fighting for her family, her body, and her right to create a future all her own Some folks will do anything to control the wild spirit of a Carolina girl... For fourteen-year-old Leah Payne, life in her beloved coastal Carolina town is as simple as it is free. Devoted to her lumberjack father and running through the wilds where the forest meets the shore, Leah's country life is as natural as the Loblolly pines that rise to greet the Southern sky. When an accident takes her father's life, Leah is wrenched from her small community and cast into a family of strangers with a terrible secret. Separated from her only home, Leah is kept apart from the family and forced to act as a helpmate for the well-to-do household. When a moment of violence and prejudice thrusts Leah into the center of the state's shameful darkness, she must fight for her own future against a world that doesn't always value the wild spirit of a Carolina girl. Set in 1935 against the very real backdrop of a recently formed state eugenics board, The Last Carolina Girl is a powerful and heart-wrenching story of fierce strength, forgotten history, autonomy, and the places and people we ultimately call home"-- Provided by publisher. Eugenics 18096 North Carolina 1935 18097 Novels. lcgft Southern Fiction 18098 Online version: Church, Meagan. Last Carolina girl Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, [2023] 9781728257174 (DLC) 2022028711 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BOOK 28808 28808 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ AF 2023-05-19 16.99 3 CHUR 64294 2024-10-08 2024-09-24 2023-05-19 BOOK 1