| Wednesday, January 6, 2010 |
| Bloodroot Essay on Powell's Books Blog |
"There is a story my mother likes to tell me over and over. When she was a little girl, a witch lived down the road from her. The witch's name was Huldie, and she read the fortunes of her neighbors in the coffee grounds left at the bottoms of their cups. She was rumored to float through the holler woods at night with the soles of her feet not touching the ground. In daylight, my uncles threw rocks at her shack in a clearing so shady that no grass would grow there. My mother would run past Huldie's place on the way to school each morning with her head down, sure the old woman would be standing in the roadside weeds waiting to snatch her up. She and my aunts were warned by their parents to keep away from Huldie. My mother was small and scared enough to mind them, but my aunts were older and braver. They knocked on Huldie's door and gave her trinkets in exchange for having their fortunes told. Now my aunts have both passed away and they never spoke of what Huldie saw in the bottoms of their cups. But I can always imagine."
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| This is the official website of author Amy Greene. Her debut novel Bloodroot will be published by Knopf on January 12, 2010. |
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About the Author: Amy Greene was born and raised in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains, where she lives with her husband and two children. Her debut novel Bloodroot will be published by Knopf on January 12, 2010. Her second novel, Long Man, is forthcoming also from Knopf.
Contact: AmyGreeneBloodroot@gmail.com
Publicist: Sara Eagle seagle@randomhouse.com
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