Bloodroot (2010) (edit title/settings)

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• Byrdie Lamb: Myra's grandmother who moved to Bloodroot Mountain when she married.
• Doug Cotter: Myra's childhood friend who was secretly in love with her but was destined to never have her
• Johnny and Laura Odom: Myra's twin children
• John Odom: Abusive husband of Myra Lamb
• Myra Lamb: The main character of the story
• Clint: Laura's husband -
• Granny: Add a description of this character.
• Mrs. Barnett: Friend to Myra
• Mark: A childhood friend to Myra
• Kenny Mayes: Myra's dad
• Hollis: Myra's brother-in-law
• Louise
• Zelda
• Pauline
• Imogene: Myra's aunt
• Percy
• Frankie Odom: Myra's father-in-law
• Mr. Thompson
• Steven
• Larry
• Grandmaw
• Marshall
• Douglas: childhood friend to Myra who always loved her
• Clifford
• Clio: Myra's mother
• Della
• Mother Betty
• Willis
• Lou Ann
• Diane
• Nora Graham
• Wild Rose: horse owned by a neighbor
• Ethel
• Hattie
• Lonnie
• Mammy
• Bill
• Pat Blanchard
• Pamela
• Jane
• Becky
• Peggy
• Ford: Handyman and writer whose life interweaves with the lives of Myra and other characters in the story.

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• “I wish I could remember what it was like inside of her. I picture her belly like a moon and me and Johnny living in it. The three of us was a family then, bound up together in her skin. Them nine months is why it don't matter where we go or what the years turn us into. We'll always love each other. For a while, we was all part of one body.”

  Laura.

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• “These beauteous forms, through a long absence, have not been to me as is a landscape to a blind man’s eye, but oft, in lonely rooms, and ’mid the din of towns and cities, I have owed to them, in hours of weariness, sensations sweet, felt in the blood, and felt along the heart….”

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• “It’s not for me to tell you what’s true. It’s your choice to believe it or not.”

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• Daddy loved her because she was something different than he was. Myra loved Wild Rose because they were the same. I guess it doesn’t matter why, but both of them loved her better than they loved me.

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• The only way to love Myra is from a distance, the same way Daddy loves Wild Rose.

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• “In darkness and amid the many shapes of joyless daylight; when the fretful stir unprofitable, and the fever of the world, have hung upon the beatings of my heart—how oft, in spirit, have I turned to thee … how often has my spirit turned to thee.”

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• Looking at its red root sap, I was overcome with something that felt like the Holy Ghost. I seen all the generations that would come out of me and Macon. I seen our blood mixed up together, shining there in the gloomy light.

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• I can’t turn my anger loose, even on a horse. I guess it will poison me instead, maybe for the rest of my life.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Bloodroot Mountain: A remote mountain in Tennessee where Myra's family and friends move to and seem unable or unwilling to leave
• Macon
• Carolina
• Myrtle
• Millertown
• Main Street

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Amy Greene (Author)

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Awards edit see section history

• Amazon Best of the Month (January 2010, #3)

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• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813.6

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Historical
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary