978-1-58838-054-8
1-58838-054-8
$27.95 hardcover
6" x 9"
341 pages
NewSouth Books
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Miller
spins an intriguing web of intertwined tales: those who enjoy
well-crafted popular fiction set in this era and locale have much to
look forward to as the Sanders family enters the war years.
--Publisher's Weekly
Like her first novel, Through a Glass, Darkly is a good read,
a page turner, with suspense generated on almost every page.
--Charlie Rose, the Montgomery Advertiser
Charlotte Miller has given us a story of how love and honor can wage
a cruelly uneven battle against greed, arrogance, poverty, malevolent
evil, and the unmerciful hand of fate -- and yet, somehow, prevail. The
book is a triumph of storytelling. The story is a triumph of the human
spirit.
--Robert Inman, author of Dairy Queen Days
In Through a Glass, Darkly, Charlotte Miller invokes the deep
rural South, and a time, a place, and a people so accurately that one
can almost hear the beat of a heart, the touch of a hand on a cheek. As
a major chronicler of our near past, with both its darkness and light,
Miller has penned a novel in which the lives of the characters soon
become almost as real as our own. She is a true Southern author in the
best sense of the word, and this book will leave her fans waiting for
more.
--Rosemary Danielle, author of Fatal Flowers: On Sin, Sex and Suicide
in the Deep South and Confessions of a (Female) Chauvinist
Rarely is a sequel as successful as a first novel. This one is.
Charlotte Miller knows her people, the poor white farmers of rural north
Alabama. James Agee showed us their faces in Now Let Us Praise
Famous Men. This writer reveals their hearts and their dreams. From
the opening page, when in 1920 the your half-Cherokee farm hand Janson
Sanders brings his gently reared and pregnant sixteen year old wife
Elise into his grandparents' cabin, we are absorbed in the day to day
life of this family: the twelve hour shifts in the cotton mill, the
brutality of the mill-owner's son, the hand to mouth struggle to survive
the grim Depression days with their aftermath of joblessness and
welfare. But through it all we see the unquenchable pride of this young
couple, their moral courage, and their love for each other and their
children. It is a page turner, an unforgettable read.
--Helen Blackshear, former Alabama Poet Laureate
Charlotte Miller’s debut novel, Behold, This Dreamer, was a
regional success story in 2000-2001. She continues with the second
installment of her trilogy exploring romance, culture, and place in the
Depression-era Deep South.
In this book, Janson Sanders and his
new bride, Elise, have been exiled by her wealthy father and have
returned, penniless,, and landless, to Janson's poor-but-proud relatives
in Alabama. There, they struggle to build a life for themselves and to
recover the family farm stolen from Janson by an unscrupulous local
landowner.
about the author:
Charlotte Miller received a degree in business
administration from Auburn University. She is the author of a
trilogy of novels; Behold, This Dreamer, Through A Glass, Darkly, and
There is a River. She lives in Opelika, Alabama.
Also by Charlotte Miller:
Behold, This Dreamer
There is a River
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