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Burnt Pot Island: A Marsh Hammock in Its Natural State

by Dove Barr Karen Dove Barr

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Resource Publications (CA)
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.7 cm

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Catherine Williams earns her living shucking oysters in a filthy, mosquito-infested shed, like all Geechee women in Pin Point, Georgia, in 1904. Even though she graduates eighth grade and yearns to escape, none of the men whose children she bears can help her. Prohibition becomes law, and rum-running gangs invade the deserted sea islands, bribing the sheriff and the mayor of nearby Savannah, who promise unheard-of sums of money to the impoverished Geechees to do their dirty work, and who lure Catherine's son Willie into the business. When the owner of the oyster cannery makes an unwanted sexual advance toward Catherine's daughter Licia, Catherine is forced to hide Licia with her son on Skidaway Island, the epicenter of fine-liquor smuggling and manufacture of moonshine. She struggles to keep her job and home, both of which depend on pleasing her boss. The mayor entices Licia into sex and rum-running, building her a secret house on Burnt Pot Island, where even voodoo and Christian prayer aren't enough to keep her safe. Federal agents close in for a raid, forcing Catherine to choose between abandoning everything she has worked for and saving her children.
Burnt Pot Island: A Marsh Hammock in Its Natural State and Burnt Pot Island: A Marsh Hammock in Its Natural State
Burnt Pot Island: A Marsh Hammock in Its Natural StateBurnt Pot Island: A Marsh Hammock in Its Natural State

  • Author

    Dove Barr Karen Dove Barr

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Resource Publications (CA)

  • Published

    November 2021

  • Weight

    509g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9781666727043

  • ISBN-10

    1666727040

  • Eden Code

    5648527

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