![]() ![]() Lum’s relatives don’t want to sell, and they’re not alone.Īs tensions over the highway escalate toward violence, and as loyalties are tested, Lum takes a bold step to create an independent life. At the same time, the federal highway administration comes scouting land, wanting to buy the family farm for a new scenic highway. Sent to assist, she forms an unlikely friendship with the curmudgeonly old man. Scenes from Lum's childhood and young adulthood are interspersed with chapters taking place in 1933 when Lum is 33 years old.īut Lum’s world changes when a local banker becomes ill and needs care. She makes friends with another outsider, a young Melungeon man from an isolated community high in the mountains, who is fresh out of prison. Always an outsider, even in her own family, Lum secretly collects postcards of people like the Dogfaced Girl, imagining their stories, and nurtures her lifelong friendship with Smiley, an AfricanAmerican man who sells furniture, oddsandends, and a little moonshine. She travels by schedule from one branch of the family to another, assisting with cooking, childcare and housework. She travels by schedule from one branch of the family to another, assisting with cooking, childcare, and housework. ![]() In 1933 in the Shenandoah Valley, there isnt a place for Lum (short for Columbia), a 33-year-old intersex woman. In 1933 in the Shenandoah Valley, there isn’t a place for Lum (short for Columbia), a 33yearold intersex woman. Check out this great listen on Audible.ca. ![]()
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