by Amy Greene
Thanks to Beth Miller and Sara Sparkes Hill for being best friends and brilliant readers.
Thanks to Leigh Feldman, Robin Desser, and Jill McCorkle for making this book happen.
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
AMY GREENE was born and raised in the foothills of East Tennessee’s Smoky Mountains, where she lives with her husband and two children.
THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Copyright © 2010 by Amy Greene
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
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Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Greene, Amy, [date]
Bloodroot: a novel / by Amy Greene.—1ST ed.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-59308-5
1. Family—Fiction. 2. Appalachian Region—Fiction. 1 Title.
PS3607.R45254B57 2010
813′.6—dc22
2009019483
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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