
The Holiest Days of Bone and Shadow, Chapter One: Blood is Blood
Old Gods of Appalachia
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A Memoir of a Mother's Death
Nadin's daddy had been one of the richest men in virginiabenjamin rigg. His land was purchased at a premium by lock railroad when they pushed their iron gers through the new river valley, expanding the home town so quickly that it earned the name magic city. Daddy sold and leased his land, wisely, setting his wife, inez and little nadine up for a life of ease. A few days after nadine's sixteenth birthday, a strange, wasting illness came upon her with a terrifying speed,. until annes rig was little more than a trembling pile of bones in a bed. The only member of her mamma's family who made it
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