The Hedge Tree

By: Laura Jo Merrell

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Paperback | 28 August 2017

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376 Pages

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22.86 x 15.24 x 2.13

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Charity Eleanor Sintz was born on a Wednesday and likes girls better than boys but these are the least of her problems. The year is 1972, Tricky Dick is in the White House, and four-year-old Charity is trying to puzzle out everyone's odd behavior at her mother's funeral. For Charity, nature is a less demanding and more reliable entity than humanity, giving itself with no promises made or broken. After losing her beloved Grandma East at the age of eight, Charity's quiet, organized life in the middle of southern Indiana's churches and cornfields comes to an end and she spends the next several years raising herself, coming of age like an insolent weed with no hope of acceptance from any self-respecting corner of the garden. But if the entire world is outside the garden, maybe it's not all bad.

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"There was a hedge tree in the O'Bryans' side yard. Like the ones in Grandma East's yard, it always dropped the useless apples and thorn-tipped branches on the ground that had to be cleared away. The tree stretched up and out well enough for a room-sized tree house that Grandpa had built for Una from cedar wood. Una no longer used the tree house and reluctantly granted me access in exchange for a promise not to smoke inside. I enjoyed climbing up there to lie on the floor and inhale the cedar as I pretended to be someone else, someone smarter, prettier, and blessed with unconstrained talent for song, dance and stage."

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