Lightningstruck / Ashley Mace Havird.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Havird, Ashley Mace, author.

Contributor:

Mercer University Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paranormal fiction.

Civil rights movements--South Carolina--Fiction.

Civil rights movements.

South Carolina.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

249 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, 2016.

Summary:

In May of 1964, eleven-year-old Etta McDaniel's horse is struck by lightning--dead and gone, she hopes--out of her life "as though he'd never come in the first place, bringing with him one catastrophe after another." But Troy, gruesomely scarred, not only survives but seems to have gained supernatural powers, which Etta sets her mind on harnessing in her search for treasure. Half-blind and crippled, the horse does lead Etta to treasure--though not to the treasure she dreamed of. Along with her shell-shocked grandfather, the family's African American housekeeper, and the widow of a Mohawk chief, the lightning-struck horse initiates her into the world of "action and liability" as the Civil Rights Movement takes hold in her rural South.

Notes:

Winner of the Ferrol Sams Award for Fiction, 2015.

ISBN:

9780881465969

0881465968

OCLC:

957266239