FROM THE PUBLISHER
Pick Cantrell is a successful newspaper cartoonist whose career has hit the skids. Fired from his job in New York, he returns with his wife and son to Eno, North Carolina, where he confronts the ghosts of his past in the form of the family matriarch and his boyhood nemesis, Mama Lucy.

What follows is an extraordinary story within a story, as Pick uncovers startling truths about himself and the role his grandmother played in the crippling General Textile Strike of 1934. A novel about family, love, and forgiveness, The Bridge explores how much we ever really know about others, and most importantly, about ourselves.

I have been saving, hoarding and collecting books with a Southern theme or by a Southern author for over a year now, and am finally starting to register them. Why? For my contribution to the 2007 BookCrossing Convention (which is here in Charleston SC) Goodie Bags! Or for a Southern Books table. Or for a Gift Basket, Door Prize or whatever purpose the prize patrol deems worthy. This is one such book. If I haven't read it (or another copy of it) already, I'm hoping to get it read before the convention. Then it'll go into a tidy stack labeled "Convention Books". Each one originating with me bears a little sticker on it saying it originated its travels at the 07 Convention and has the southern theme. Enjoy! (And don't forget to let the book check in before you release it!)

REscued this one from the convention stack to give to javaczuk, as he expressed an interest in it.

Clearing our shelves in preparation for a move. Releasing this on the day of the Cooper River Bridge Run. :)

Left in the Square the morning of the Cooper River Bridge Run.

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