Young Leonard Bush buries his lost leg and saves his whole East Tennessee town in this winsome and miraclemaking novel.When twelveyearold Leonard Bush loses his leg in a freak accident, he decides to give his leg a proper burial in the hilltop cemetery of his East Tennessee town. This event somehow sets off a chain of miraculous and catastrophic eventsupending the lives of Leonards rigidly Godfearing mother, June his deeply conflicted father, Emmett and his best friend, Azalea, and her mother, Rose, who is also the town prostitute. While the local Baptist minister passes judgment on events and promises dire consequences, the people of this small community on the banks of Big Sugar move together toward awakening.Susan Gilmores love of storytelling flows naturally from her Tennessee roots. Shes the daughter of a revival preachers son, brought up on the land and streams that populate this novel that is, as Appalachian novelist Lee Smith says, a "homespun Pilgrims Progress."

Binding: Hardcover;300 pages; Publisher: Blair; Classification: FA; Weight: 544 g; Dimensions: 148 x 224 x 28

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