Wish You Well
About this book
Precocious 12-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives inthe hectic New York City of 1940 with her family.Then tragedy strikes--and Lou and her younger brother,Oz, must go with their invalid mother to live on theirgreat-grandmother's farm in the Virginia mountains.Suddenly Lou finds herself coming of age in a newlandscape, making her first true friend, and experiencingadventures tragic, comic, and audacious. But the forcesof greed and justice are about to clash over her newhome . . . and as their struggle is played out in a crowdedVirginia courtroom, it will determine the future of twochildren, an entire town, and the mountains they love.
Subjects
- baldwin, james - prose & criticism
- bildungsromans
- domestic fiction
- family life
- family relationships
- farm life
- fiction
- fiction, coming of age
- fiction, family life
- fiction, family life, general
- fiction / general
- general
- girls
- historical - general
- land tenure
- large type books
- mountain life
- natural gas reserves
- new york times bestseller
- nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-fiction=2015-06-07
- popular american fiction
- social life and customs
- traffic accident victims
- traffic accident victims -- family relationships -- fiction
- unabridged audio - fiction/general
- virginia, fiction
- women landowners