Bren McClain
Author
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mama cow's devotion to her calf provides lessons in motherhood to a poor Southern woman in this novel of family, survival, and human-animal bonds.
South Carolina, 1950s. Homemaker Sarah Creamer has been left to care for young Emerson Bridge, the product of an affair between Sarah's husband and her best friend. But beyond the deep wound of their betrayal, Sarah is daunted by the prophecy of her mother's words, seared in her memory...
South Carolina, 1950s. Homemaker Sarah Creamer has been left to care for young Emerson Bridge, the product of an affair between Sarah's husband and her best friend. But beyond the deep wound of their betrayal, Sarah is daunted by the prophecy of her mother's words, seared in her memory...