It brought up a lot of things to discuss about religion, women, and gossip set in early 1900s South. Brimming with characters who are wise and loony, unimpeachably pious and deliciously irreverent, Olive Ann Burns’s classic bestseller is a timeless, funny, and resplendent treasure.Ĭold Sassy Tree was a great book for book club. As their marriage inspires a whirlwind of local gossip, fourteen-year-old Will Tweedy suddenly finds himself eyewitness to a family scandal, and that’s where his adventures begin.Ĭold Sassy Tree is the undeniably entertaining and extraordinarily moving account of small-town Southern life in a bygone era. He is barely three weeks a widower, and she is only half his age and a Yankee to boot. Rucker Blakeslee, elopes with Miss Love Simpson. On July 5, 1906, scandal breaks in the small town of Cold Sassy, Georgia, when the proprietor of the general store, E. The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around - fast. Genres: Adult Fiction, Audiobook, Classic, Historical Fiction
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