Cold Sassy Tree

The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around-fast. When Grandpa E. Rucker Blakeslee announces one July morning in 1906 that he's aiming to marry the young and freckledy milliner, Miss Love Simpson-a bare three weeks after Granny Blakeslee has gone to her reward-the news is served up all over town with that afternoon's dinner. And young Will Tweedy suddenly finds himself eyewitness to a major small-town scandal. Boggled by the sheer audacity of it all, and...