Book Synopsis
It’s an unusually warm autumn, 1929, and O.T. Lawrence is about as
content as a cotton farmer can be in Five Forks, Georgia. Nothing—not
poverty, drought, or even the boll weevi—can spoil the idyllic life he
shares with his doting wife and children and his beloved twin brother
Walt. Until illness and Black Tuesday take everything O.T. ever held
dear in one fell swoop. Grieving, drinking, and careening toward
homelessness, O.T. is on the brink of ending it all when he receives an
odd letter from a teenage acquaintance, the enigmatic Sivvy Hargrove,
who is locked away in Milledgeville’s asylum for the insane. Traveling
through desperate antebellum towns, O.T. and his daughter Ginny are
determined to find Sivvy and discover her story. Set against the
backdrop of the Great Depression, Monarchs Under the Sassafras Tree is a
love story to Georgia and the spirit of its people—a story of family,
unconditional love, poverty, injustice, and finding the strength inside
to keep on going when all is lost.
Author Bio
Lillah Lawson has been writing since she
was 8 years old, when she won a short story contest at her elementary
school. The story was about a Princess who gets tired of waiting for the
Prince to show up and saves herself. Once she saw her words printed in
the local newspaper, she knew she wanted to be a writer.
Having written professionally as well as
dabbling in poetry, children’s books and blogging, Lillah finally
completed her first novel, Aroha, as part of a NaNoWriMo challenge in
2012.
She lives in Georgia, in the United
States, with her partner and son and three rambunctious animals. She is
currently working on another novel.
Giveaway
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