Finding Day's Bottom
After eleven-year-old Jane-Ery loses her father in a sawmill accident, Grandpap comes down from Salter’s Mountain to live with her and her mother. To Jane-Ery’s surprise, Grandpap’s funny ways and strange stories bring her a comfort she never expected. He tells her about Day’s Bottom, “a place of light and wonderment” that has “anything a body could ever want.” Jane-Ery wonders: Could she find Daddy there? So begins her search for a new kind of understanding of her father’s death. This gently told, beautifully rendered novel brings to life a time and place readers will come to love, Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains in the 1950s.
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Reviews
Booklist
“This affecting first-person novel is an involving story of loss, pain, healing, and family love.”
—Booklist
Kirkus Reviews
“Wonderful description, hill-country language, appropriate grief and honesty combine to offer a new take on an old story.”
— Kirkus
School Library Journal
“After the death of her father in a sawmill accident, Jane-Ery, 11 passes through levels of grief so poignantly revealed that her voice sets a ragged emotional tone throughout. . . it both uplifts and uncovers the family’s raw and slowly healing spirits. A novel full of insight and truth.”
—School Library Journal