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02427aam a2200409 i 4500 001 96453766122B11EDB028045E3CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220802012256 008 211220s2022 scu 000 f eng 010 $a 2021058463 020 $a 1938235916 020 $a 9781938235917 040 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-la 050 00 $a PS3616.E2895 $b C76 2022 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23/eng/20211220 100 1 $a Pedersen, Ashleigh Bell, $e author. 245 14 $a The crocodile bride / $c Ashleigh Bell Pedersen. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Spartanburg, SC : $b Hub City Press, $c [2022] 300 $a 291 pages $c 24 cm. 500 $a "A Novel"--Dust jacket. 520 $a "Set during the swampy summer in 1982, this stunning debut novel follows eleven-year-old Sunshine Turner and her troubled father Billy as the secrets of their family's past swirl around them in the one-road town of Fingertip, Louisiana. During a hot summer of June moods, grubworms, and dark storms, Sunshine discovers stones in her chest - and learns the dangers her coming-of-age will bring about in the yellow house she shares with her father. Without the vocabulary to comprehend Billy's actions or her own changing body, Sunshine turns to a story passed down through the generations of the Turner family: in the dark waters of the Black Bayou lives a crocodile with an insatiable appetite, and a woman with a mysterious healing gift. As Sunshine's summer unspools, she turns to the one person who will need no explanation of the family secrets she carries-the crocodile bride. The Crocodile Bride is at once a heartbreakingly tender coming-of-age tale and a lyrical, haunting reflection on generational trauma. Reminiscent of Jesmyn Ward and Helen Oyeyemi, Ashleigh Bell Pedersen is a promising new voice in American fiction"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Life change events $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Small cities $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Conflict of generations $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Parent and child $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Louisiana $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft. 655 7 $a Bildungsromans. $2 lcgft. 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft. 941 $a 3 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20230801010319.0 952 $l XAPE737 $d 20230105010106.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20220802013746.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=96453766122B11EDB028045E3CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search