The Truest Pleasure

American

Author: Robert Morgan

Ginny, who marries Tom at the turn of the century after her family has given up on her ever marrying, narrates THE TRUEST PLEASURE–the story of their life together on her father’s farm in the western North Carolina mountains. They have a lot in common–love of the land and fathers who fought in the Civil War. Tom’s father died in the war, but Ginny’s father came back to w….Read More

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