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In May of 1964, eleven-year-old Etta McDaniel's horse is struck by lightning-dead and gone, she hopes- out of her life "as though he'd never come in the first place, bringing with him one catastrophe after another." But Troy, gruesomely scarred, not only survives but seems to have gained supernatural powers, which Etta sets her mind on harnessing in her search for treasure. She is convinced that a find of the sort her hero Heinrich Schliemann unearthed at ancient Troy will set to rights everything suddenly gone wrong in her life: rivalry and betrayal at home and social unrest reaching even her family's farm. Half-blind and crippled, the horse does lead Etta to treasure-though not to the treasure she dreamed of. Along with her shell-shocked grandfather, the family's African American housekeeper, and the widow of a Mohawk chief, the lightning-struck horse initiates her into the world of "action and liability" as the Civil Rights Movement takes hold in her rural South. Etta comes to understand that this world was never perfect, with its economy dependent on tobacco and before that on slavery, as excavations on the farm reveal. Once unearthed, the ugly truths of history scar Etta and set her, in a figurative sense, upon the back of the lightning-scarred horse and on the journey of her life.
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Ashley Mace Havird grew up on a tobacco farm in South Carolina. She has published three collections of poems, including The Garden of the Fugitives (2014), which won the 2013 X. J. Kennedy Prize. Her poems and stories have appeared in many journals, including Shenandoah, The Southern Review, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. Lightningstruck, winner of the 2015 Ferrol Sams Award, is her first novel.
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- EditorialMercer University Press
- Año de publicación2016
- ISBN 10 0881465968
- ISBN 13 9780881465969
- EncuadernaciónTapa blanda
- Número de páginas272
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