Poke Sallet Queen and the Family Medicine Wheel
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Reading Shana Thorntons highly original novel will make you want to get your own family stories to the page. Youll meet larger-than-life characters like Hoot and Zona, Aunt Cora and Jane, Miss Emy, and Nenny, the matriarch, who rolls her own cigarettes and knows all the secrets of the family medicine wheel. You may even find yourself signing up for a writing class like the one that sets the narrator, young Robin Ballard, to interviewing her aunts and grandmother, tracking down her homeless father, and digging out the family secrets, lost journals, and recipes that make Poke Sallet Queen & the Family Medicine Wheel a most surprising and satisfying fictional family history. (At least, I think its fiction!)-Mary Helen Stefaniak, author of The Turk and My Mother and The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia****Vibrant in detail! Meet and fall in love with the characters of Poke Sallet Queen and the Family Medicine Wheel and along the way, learn the secrets of great story-telling. -Bud Willis, author of Marble Mountain: A Vietnam Memoir****When Im given a book to review, I like to open it up at random and see if whats on the happenstance page resonates at all. This time I found the heroine Robin Ballard singing Mother Maybelle Carters Wildwood Flower at a beauty contest she does not expect to win. She is someone I recognize, who trips over a cord as shes leaving the stage, whose familys knowledge comes from the dirt not from parchment scrolls and crests that open doors. This character is humble and honest, and the book refreshingly natural and just different enough. I like it....-Rheta Grimsley Johnson, author of Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming****Shana Thornton has a fresh, unique voice and talent. Poke Sallet Queen and the Family Medicine Wheel is a lyrical tale of love in the lush Tennessee hills, of generations gone by, and of people appreciated for simple things as much as the passing on of their history. There is mystery, sorrow, la
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