Introduction

For Jesse Winsloe, the answer is clear: head into hiding. Single again and laid off from work, Jesse flees to Onery Cabin to lick her wounds with her ancient aunt Will?a Granny woman with the secret to healing the lovelorn.

Sure, Onery Cabin may be right out of Hollywood's Lifestyles of the Poor and Hillbilly, but Marrying Stone Mountain has its charm?including the local physician's assistant, Piney Baxley, a past recipient of Aunt Will's pungent "heartbreak poultice."

Between folk remedies and a "no strings attached" romance, Jesse is beginning to think she's found her own brand of lovesick cure?because there's nothing like a pinch of confidence and a dash of attraction to mend a broken heart.

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Excerpt

She stood with her parents near the aisle on the right side of the auditorium at Tulsa's Lake Grove Middle School. For the past eight years, Jesse had been seated on stage with the faculty. This year, her expectation was to be in the audience—specifically, in the second row of the middle section, where "the families" sat. As the fiancée of the principal, Greg Wilkinson, that would have been the appropriate place for her. However, the reality was that she was no longer a faculty member or Greg's fiancée. Instead, she stood with her mother, stepfather and her brothers, smiling, smiling, smiling as the audience of students, parents and community leaders applauded and welcomed the new happy couple. Principal and Mrs. Greg Wilkinson. HER Greg Wilkinson. ... view entire excerpt...

Discussion Questions

1. Do you see the mores of bygone eras lingering in behaviors today?

2. Aunt Will wanted to die at home. Sometimes that isn’t possible. What level of heroic efforts should friends and family go through to fulfill such a request?

3. Is Piney unrealistic to expect his son not to have high school sex?

4. Early in the story, Camryn believes that a forced marriage to Tree is her best option for the future. How would you have advised her?

5. Subsistence farming tends to be idealized in books and media. What do you think life would truly be like on Aunt Will’s farm?

6. Piney had one set of sexual rules for his son and a very different set for himself. Was age a reasonable factor for the difference or was he truly the hypocrite that he called himself?

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