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      Bloodroot

      by Aaron Roy Even
      Published
      Oct 2000
      Main Genre
      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      256
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      In 1936, in a small town near Charlottesville, Virginia, an aging black caretaker and his sister shot dead a white sheriff acting on orders to turn them off their land. Bloodroot explores the circumstances leading up to the violent standoff as seen through the eyes of Elsa, a young county employee fresh out of school and filled with aspiration and illusion, and those of Wesley, the fifty-year old caretaker of a vanished family's estate.

      While Elsa struggles to retain her authority and self-respect, Wesley is haunted by past concessions and his sister's attachment to the land. When he stands in the way of a proposed turpentine plant by refusing the county's purchase offer, both Elsa and Wesley find themselves moving relentlessly toward an end neither wants to reach.

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      General Fiction

      Subgenres

      Historical

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      Dec 2001 Griffin ISBN13 9780312283926 ISBN10 031228392X
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      First Edition Oct 2000 Thomas Dunne ISBN13 9780312265618 ISBN10 0312265611
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