Wish You Well
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Overview
New York, 1940. A car crash on a rain-slicked road takes Lou and Oz Cardinal's father and leaves their mother unable to speak or move. Twelve-year-old Lou and her little brother are sent south to the mountains of southwestern Virginia to live with a great-grandmother they have never met.
On Louisa Mae Cardinal's hardscrabble farm, the city kids learn to plow, haul water and survive a mountain winter, and they find friends in a barefoot boy named Diamond and a kindhearted lawyer, Cotton Longfellow. Then a coal and gas company comes for the land, and the fight to keep the farm ends up in a courtroom where the whole town takes sides.
Wish You Well (2000) was a departure for David Baldacci: no spies or assassins, but a family story drawn from his own mother's childhood in the Virginia mountains. Readers who know him only from his thrillers are often surprised by how quiet and personal it is.
Good for: fans of historical fiction, Appalachian settings and coming-of-age novels like To Kill a Mockingbird or Where the Crawdads Sing.
Product Details
| ISBN-13 | 9780446527163 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0446527165 |
| Publisher | Warner Books |
| Format | Hardcover |
| Pages | 401 |
| Language | English |