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When Laura Hoge Woods died in 1966, at the age of ninety-six, she left her granddaughter a cardboard box labeled "For my Janice when I'm gone." In the box were her thin gold wedding ring, her old blue Olivetti portable typewriter, and all of her fading notes for the Hill Country manuscript. ... read more

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First Sentence

ONE JUNE EVENING, JUST AS THE FALLING SUN WAS BEGINNING to paint the Texas Hill Country with lavender halflight, Tom and Eliza Felps, having put their children to bed, were fishing for the fat little smallmouth bass that feed in the pools of Cypress Creek.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Janice Woods Windle (Author)

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  1. 19th century
  2. fiction
  3. historical fiction
  4. texas 
 

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