A difficult, yet redemptive story of a blossoming young woman… Whispering of The Willows: Historic Appalachian Drama by Tonya Jewel Blessing

by Tonya Jewel Blessing

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A 1920s’ saga of Emerald Ashby coming-of-age. “I’m poetic in an Appalachian sort of way. People say I’m easy. I ain’t, but it’s easy to see why they’d think so! Whisper now. Wanna know how I survived? I’ll tell ya…”Set against the superstitions and old-time religion in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia, author Tonya Jewel Blessing tells a difficult, yet redemptive story of a blossoming young woman who is accompanied by her friends and her foes on a journey towards hope and healing. Not since Catherine Marshall’s strong heroine named Christy, has an Appalachian drama come to life like The Whispering of the Willows.

Love weaves through gut-wrenching circumstances and dismal poverty where Emerald Ashby grows strong despite grievous wrongs committed against her. In this desperate historical setting, mysterious disappearances lead to traps set for the innocent. Now, when key individuals begin carving out a rescue plan, Emerald Ashby sets a few of her own traps. It’s a page-turner. In this ailing town. What will be their measure of success? Cleverly suspenseful and sweetly spoken, the storyteller’s unassuming voice transforms an Appalachian trail of tears into holy terror against an evil that stalks the innocent. In The Whispering of the Willows, an Appalachian marriage practice might be compared to the modern sex trade which exploits young females.