02545cam a2200385 i 4500 2806918718 TxAuBib 20250707120000.0 r 260328s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781496753137 electronic bk. 1496753135 electronic bk. MWT17386116 Midwest rda TxAuBib rda Hayford, India, author. The Song of the Blue Bottle Tree [Hoopla] / India Hayford. [United States : Kensington Books, 2025. Made available through hoopla. 1 online resource (352 pages.) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Instant title available through hoopla. Disguised by years in exile and a name she found on a gravestone, an unconventional young woman returns to her childhood home in rural 1967 Arkansas in this hauntingly visceral Southern tale of desperate choices, found family, folk magic and noisy ghosts. Genevieve Charbonneau talks to ghosts and has a special relationship with rattlesnakes. In her travels, she's wandered throughout the South, working in a Louisiana circus and as a hootchy kootch dancer in Texas. Now for the first time in a decade, she's allowed her winding path to bring her to the site of her grandmother's Arkansas farmhouse, a place hallowed in her memory. Disguised by years in exile and a name she found on a gravestone, Genevieve intends only to visit briefly and leave. But a chance meeting with a guilt-ridden young Vietnam veteran draws her into more unexpected connections. Her hard-won independence inspires an abused woman and her daughters to find their own path to empowerment, and a hypocritical preacher is brought to a long-deserved reckoning. With undertones of magical realism and dark humor, here is a powerful story of discovering, and sometimes rediscovering, one's place in the world, and the unexpected challenges and gifts that present themselves along the way. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Hoopla eBook. Coming of age Fiction. Rural development Fiction. History fast Fiction. Electronic books. Historical fiction. lcgft Fiction. fast hoopla digital. https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/17382672?utm_source=MARC&Lid=hh4337 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/csp_9781496753137_180.jpeg Cover image