That’s a lot more complicated than Sallie expected, and she enters a world of conflict and lawlessness. Nine years later, she returns, determined to reclaim her place in the family. When Sallie tries to teach young Eddie to be more like their father, her daredevil coaching leads to an accident, and Sallie is cast out. While Sallie is her father’s daughter, sharp-witted and resourceful, Eddie is his mother’s son, timid and cerebral. By the time she is just eight years old, the Duke has remarried and had a son, Eddie. Born at the turn of the 20th century into a life of comfort and privilege, Sallie remembers little about her mother who died in a violent argument with the Duke. Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who’d amount to nothing. The instant New York Times bestseller! Named a LibraryReads Pick for March 2023 and a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Oprah Daily, Elle, and LitHub!įrom Jeannette Walls, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle, comes a riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Virginia during Prohibition.
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