A Place with Promise

Swift, Edward

ISBN 10: 1930709102 / ISBN 13: 9781930709102

Published by Hawk Pub Group, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Place with Promise
• Publisher: Hawk Pub Group
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1930709102
• ISBN 13: 9781930709102
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

About this title

Synopsis

A Place with Promise is a magical, generation-spanning fable about everything we think we've lost except, as the denizens of Camp Ruby learn, it's all still there, if we only know where to look for it. Bessie Overstreet knows quiet Isaac is the man she's always wanted from the moment his fishing boat drifts into view. She marries him amidst town gossip that Bessie "isn't quite like everybody else" and settles into his precarious little house in Camp Ruby a place filled with promise. She soon gives birth to twin girls who are so alike that everyone whispers, "They share the same mind." Another special daughter follows, Zeda Earl. Scarred by a dark family secret, it takes angry, restless Zeda half a lifetime to learn what the village savant Billy Wiggins senses and Bessie always knew "It's not who you're born, it's what you become."

About the Author

Edward Swift made his debut as a novelist in 1978 with Splendora, which The Houston Chronicle praised as one of the year's best comic novels. He has since written four other acclaimed novels, as well as a memoir, My Grandfather's Finger. He lives in New York City, where he is working on a new novel.