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In the year 1912, nineteen-year-old Christy Huddleston leaves home to teach school in the Smoky Mountains -- and comes to know and love the resilient people of the region, with their fierce pride, their dark superstitions, their terrible poverty, and their yearning for beauty and truth. But... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Christy Rudd Huddleston: A 19-year old girl that sets out to work at a mission, believing that God has called her to minister.
- Alice Henderson: a Quaker mission worker from Ardmore, Pennsylvania
- David Grantland: the Cove's minister
- Dr. Neil MacNeill: the physician of the Cove, who's hiding a secret
- Jeb Spencer: a ballad-singing mountain man
- Fairlight Spencer: very good friend to Christy and wife of Jeb Spencer. Her children are John, Zady, Clara, Lulu, and Little Guy.
- Bob Allen: keeper of the mill of Blackberry Creek
- Uncle Bogg McHone: the country squire, humorist of Cutter Gap, teller of tall tales
- Tom McHone: one of Uncle Bogg's grown sons
- Opal McHone: Tom's wife, their children are Isaak, Toot, Vincent
- Bird's-Eye Taylor: feuder and blockader
- Lundy Taylor: Bird's-Eye Taylor's 17-year old swarthy son
- Ben Pentland: the mailman
- Ruby Mae: red-haired girl who lives at the mission house
- Aunt Polly Teague: ninety-two, oldest woman in the Cove
- Mr. Hazen Smith: wealthy Knoxville businessman, helps Christy get supplies for the mission
Setting & Locations edit
- Asheville
- Cove
- Knoxville
- Tennessee
- North Carolina
- Lyleton
- Pennsylvania
- America
- New York
- England
- Ardmore
First Sentence edit
On that November afternoon when I first saw Cutter Gap, the crumbling chimney of Alice Henderson's cabin stood stark against the sky, blackened by the flames that had consumed the house.
Table of Contents edit
Prologue
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Series & Lists edit
This is book 9 of 10 in Publishers Weekly Bestselling Novels In 1968. (authoritative list)
Preceded by Vanished, and followed by The Tower of Babel.
This is book 5 of 10 in Publishers Weekly Bestselling Novels In 1967. (authoritative list)
Preceded by Topaz, and followed by The Eighth Day.
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- Catherine Marshall (Author)
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- Dewey: 813.54
Notes for Parents edit
Reading Level: Young AdultsThis book is good for young adults through adults.
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- Books › Religion & Spirituality › Christianity › Literature & Fiction › Fiction
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Movie Connections edit
- Christy (IMDb): 1994 television series
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