Rush Home RoadRush Home Road
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Book, 2002
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Current format, Book, 2002, 1st, All copies in use. Offered in 0 more formatsWhen she volunteers to take in five-year-old Sharla Cody for the summer, Addy Shad, an eighty-year-old woman, and Sharla form a powerful bond that prompts Addy to recollect her own childhood in Rusholme, a town settled by fugitive slaves in the mid-1800s, detailing her family, her first love, and the tragic event that drove her away from home. 100,000 first printing.
When she volunteers to take in five-year-old Sharla Cody for the summer, eighty-year-old Addy Shadd forms a powerful bond with Sharla that prompts her to recollect her own childhood in Rusholme, a town settled by fugitive slaves in the mid-1800s.
When Addy Shadd was a young girl living in Rusholme, she was taught the history of her town, which was settled by fugitive slaves in the 1800s. It was told to her like a storybook legend - and although Addy is forced to leave her beloved home as a teenager, the place will call her for the rest of her life. She thinks of it as a commandment: "Rush home, Addy Shadd. Thou shalt rush home." But the stories and memories of Addy's past have been buried deep in her seventy-year-old heart - memories that are by turns dark and poignant, erotic and mysterious.
When five-year-old Sharla Cody is abandoned on Addy's trailer-park doorstep, the old woman doesn't know if she is up to the task of mothering the willful, curious, child. But she takes the little girl into her home, and Sharla opens a door to Addy's past - to memories of the strawberry fields, the church graveyard, and the tender crust of her Mama Laisa's apple pies. Addy remembers the bootleggers, and life in Detroit City, and the shocking encounter she witnessed in the shadows one unforgettable night. She remembers her childhood sweetheart Chester Monk, and the three-layered white cake decorated with candy rosebuds that she made for her little girl, Chick. The past returns to Addy Shadd, and as she sits in her trailer she can close her eyes and "see the country farms and city streets and recall each season of death and rebirth." Somehow, Sharla Cody helps Addy make sense of her long and hard life so she can find forgiveness - and finally make the journey home again.
When she volunteers to take in five-year-old Sharla Cody for the summer, eighty-year-old Addy Shadd forms a powerful bond with Sharla that prompts her to recollect her own childhood in Rusholme, a town settled by fugitive slaves in the mid-1800s.
When Addy Shadd was a young girl living in Rusholme, she was taught the history of her town, which was settled by fugitive slaves in the 1800s. It was told to her like a storybook legend - and although Addy is forced to leave her beloved home as a teenager, the place will call her for the rest of her life. She thinks of it as a commandment: "Rush home, Addy Shadd. Thou shalt rush home." But the stories and memories of Addy's past have been buried deep in her seventy-year-old heart - memories that are by turns dark and poignant, erotic and mysterious.
When five-year-old Sharla Cody is abandoned on Addy's trailer-park doorstep, the old woman doesn't know if she is up to the task of mothering the willful, curious, child. But she takes the little girl into her home, and Sharla opens a door to Addy's past - to memories of the strawberry fields, the church graveyard, and the tender crust of her Mama Laisa's apple pies. Addy remembers the bootleggers, and life in Detroit City, and the shocking encounter she witnessed in the shadows one unforgettable night. She remembers her childhood sweetheart Chester Monk, and the three-layered white cake decorated with candy rosebuds that she made for her little girl, Chick. The past returns to Addy Shadd, and as she sits in her trailer she can close her eyes and "see the country farms and city streets and recall each season of death and rebirth." Somehow, Sharla Cody helps Addy make sense of her long and hard life so she can find forgiveness - and finally make the journey home again.
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