Friday, April 12, 2013

Giveaway - Glow - Jessica Marie Tuccelli

I have a great giveaway for you today, thanks to the great folks at Penguin Books......Glow by Jessica Marie Tuccelli.

What's it about? From the publisher:

"October 1941. Eleven-year-old Ella McGee sits on a bus bound for her Southern hometown. Behind her in Washington, D.C., lie the broken pieces of her parents’ love story—a black father drafted, an activist mother of Scotch-Irish and Cherokee descent confronting racist thugs. But Ella’s journey is just beginning when she reaches Hopewell County, and her disappearance into the Georgia mountains will unfurl a rich tapestry of family secrets spanning a century. Told in five unforgettable voices, Glow reaches back through the generations, from the eve of World War II to the Blue Ridge frontier of 1836, where slave plantations adjoin the haunted glades of a razed Cherokee Nation. Out of these characters’ lives evolves a drama that is at once intimately human and majestic in its power to call upon the great themes of our time—race, identity, and the bonds of family and community."

Lushly conceived, cinematically detailed, and epic in historical scope, Glow announces an
extraordinary new voice in Southern fiction."

"Jessica Maria Tuccelli spent three summers trekking through northeastern Georgia, soaking up its ghost stories and folklore. A graduate of MIT with a degree in anthropology, she lives in New York City with her husband and daughter. Glow is her first novel."

Sound like a book you'd like to read? Simply leave a comment to be entered. Open to US only, no PO boxes please. Ends Sat. April 27/13
 

15 comments:

Karen B said...

I've read so many wonderful reviews of GLOW and would love to win it!

SandyG265 said...

Sounds like a good book. Thanks for the chance to win.

Rhonda said...

I've read so many wonderful reviews would love to read it.lomazowr@gmail.com

Carol N Wong said...

I love historical fiction and have heard so much good about this book.

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Carl Scott said...

This sounds like just the book I'd love to have by the pool this summer. Please enter my name in the draw. Thanks!
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The Many Thoughts of a Reader said...

Wow, this sounds really good!

traveler said...

This would be wonderful. saubleb(at)gmail(dot)com

petite said...

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Martha Lawson said...

I would love to win this one, it sounds really great. Thanks for the chance.

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Anonymous said...

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Nathaly Habich said...

I want to win thus book! :) nathrific@gmail.com

Anita Yancey said...

Sounds like a great read full of history. I love the setting for this book, and would really like to read it. Please enter me. Thanks!

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Unknown said...

I'm grateful for this chance to win!

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Beatnik Mary said...

I'd love to win this book. I also LOVE LOVE LOVE how you post your giveaways on your right sidewalk with links to the posts. That's genius! I might have to try that on my blog if I can figure out how you did it...

Maureen said...

Thanks for the giveaway!
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