Charms for the easy life
by Kaye Gibbons
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A family without men, the Birches live gloriously offbeat lives in the lush, green backwoods of North Carolina.
Radiant, headstrong Sophia and her shy, brilliant daughter, Margaret, possess powerful charms to ward off loneliness, despair, and the human misery that often beats a path to their door. And they are protected by the eccentric wisdom and muscular love of the remarkable matriarch Charlie Kate, a solid, uncompromising, self-taught healer who treats everything from boils to broken bones to broken hearts.
Sophia, Margaret, and Charlie Kate find strength in a time when women almost always depended on men, and their bond deepens as each one experiences love and loss during World War II.
Charms for the Easy Life is a passionate, luminous, and exhilarating story about embracing what life has to offer ... even if it means finding it in unconventional ways.
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Charms for the Easy Life
2010, Penguin USA, Inc.
Electronic resource
in English
1101172819 9781101172810
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Charms for the Easy Life
March 2000, Chivers North America
Audio cassette
in English
- UNABRIDGED edition
079272352X 9780792723523
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Charms for the Easy Life
January 1, 1999, Audioworks
Audio Cassette
in English
- Abridged edition
0671044966 9780671044961
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Charms for the Easy Life
October 1999, Tandem Library
School & Library Binding
in English
0785727442 9780785727446
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