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The Story of Sassy Sweetwater: Southern Fiction for Women
by Cook Vera Jane

Published: 2016-05-03T00:0
Paperback : 318 pages
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Passionate, riveting and full of surprises, The Story of Sassy Sweetwater is one of violence, love, and forgiveness. There are secrets and fierce loyalties. The characters are eccentric, flawed and compelled to discover the truth. Will the truths that Sassy discovers be worth the journey ...
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Passionate, riveting and full of surprises, The Story of Sassy Sweetwater is one of violence, love, and forgiveness. There are secrets and fierce loyalties. The characters are eccentric, flawed and compelled to discover the truth. Will the truths that Sassy discovers be worth the journey forward?

5 Star Clarion Review, 4.2 Amazon reviews.

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Mama said I was born by a stream named Sweetwater. She called me Sassy the moment she realized I was a girl. Mama said girls should be sassy, gives them sex appeal. So I was named Sassy, after an attitude, and Sweetwater, after a stream. The year was 1949, and the place was a dirty, back-road shack in a dusty, little town in South Carolina. Mama never could remember the name of the town, but she told me that it might have been Cottageville or maybe even Ridgeville. Didn’t matter much what it was called, though. I never saw it again, and as far as I knew, Mama didn’t either. ... view entire excerpt...

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1.What would Sassy's life had been like had her mother not returned to Carson Corners?

2. Why do you think Sassy developed such a strong bond with Dudley?

3. Should Violet have left her daughter behind when she fled to another town?

4. Why do you think Sassy and her Aunt were so close?

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