{"product_id":"the-last-carolina-girl-a-novel","title":"The Last Carolina Girl: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Unforgettable, this a powerful debut to savor.\" ― Kim Michele Richardson, New York Times bestselling author of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA searing book club novel for fans of Where the Crawdads Sing and The Girls in the Stilt House following one girl fighting for her family, her body, and her right to create a future all her own\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome folks will do anything to control the wild spirit of a Carolina girl...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fourteen-year-old Leah Payne, life in her beloved coastal Carolina town is as simple as it is free. Devoted to her lumberjack father and running through the wilds where the forest meets the shore, Leah's country life is as natural as the Loblolly pines that rise to greet the Southern sky.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen an accident takes her father's life, Leah is wrenched from her small community and cast into a family of strangers with a terrible secret. Separated from her only home, Leah is kept apart from the family and forced to act as a helpmate for the well-to-do household. When a moment of violence and prejudice thrusts Leah into the center of the state's shameful darkness, she must fight for her own future against a world that doesn't always value the wild spirit of a Carolina girl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in 1935 against the very real backdrop of a recently formed state eugenics board, The Last Carolina Girl is a powerful and heart-wrenching story of fierce strength, forgotten history, autonomy, and the places and people we ultimately call home.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Novel Bloom","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51055725117746,"sku":"9781728257150","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0919\/9714\/3346\/files\/9781728257150.jpg?v=1775839467","url":"https:\/\/thenovelbloom.com\/products\/the-last-carolina-girl-a-novel","provider":"The Novel Bloom","version":"1.0","type":"link"}