Sarah’s Girls: A Chronicle of Big Ugly Creek - Softcover

Coberly, Lenore McComas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804010951 ISBN 13: 9780804010955

Publisher: Swallow Press, 2006

Synopsis

Situated in a remote outpost in West Virginia at the turn of the last century, the story that Lenore McComas Coberly tells in Sarah’s Girls is one of place, people, and unquenchable spirit. In this fictionalized account of her recent ancestors, Coberly masterfully traces the journeys of their lives, their dreams, and their hardships over the course of the twentieth century.
At its center is the story of Lena, who returns to care for her dead sister’s daughters, giving up the promise of a life that can spare her the adversity rural living guarantees. The author goes back to Big Ugly Creek, the place where her grandparents met―and the place whose memory she cannot leave.
Using the stories she was told in her childhood as a bridge to the past, Coberly uncovers facts about her family history from documents that have made their way from one generation to another and the truth from the inherent understanding she has of these people who are so close to her.
But Sarah’s Girls is not about the author; it is about the people and a place she loves. It is fiction written to tell the deeper truth about the hold West Virginia―its mountains and its valleys―has on its people.

About this title

About the Author

Lenore McComas Coberly grew up in Lincoln County, West Virginia. She is the author of The Handywoman Stories and the senior author of Writers Have No Age. Her poetry, essays, and stories have appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, Appalachian Journal, and other journals and in Wild Street Notes: Fifty Years of West Virginia Poetry, 1950-1999.

Edition details

• Publisher: Swallow Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804010951
• ISBN 13: 9780804010955
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168