The Pecan Man

by Cassie Dandridge Selleck

Overview

The Pecan Man is a beautiful work of Southern fiction whose first chapter was the first-place winner of the 2006 CNW/FFWA Florida State Writing Competition in the unpublished novel category.

In the summer of 1976, recently widowed and childless, Ora
Lee Beckworth hires a homeless old black man to mow her lawn. The neighborhood children call him the Pee-can Man; their mothers call them inside whenever he appears. When the police chief’s son is found stabbed to death near his camp,
the man Ora knows as Eddie is arrested and charged with murder. Twenty-five years later, Ora sets out to tell the truth about the Pecan Man. In narrating her story, Ora discovers more about herself than she could ever have imagined. This novel has been described as To
Kill a Mockingbird meets The Help.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781483023038
Publisher:	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publication date:	07/01/2014
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 5.70(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Cassie Dandridge
Selleck is a native of Leesburg, Florida, the town that inspired the fictional Mayville of The Pecan Man.
She now makes her home on the banks of the Suwannee River in Northwest Florida with her husband, Perry. A writer at heart, she is also the marketing director for Anderson Crane and Bridge Technologies, Inc.