Cold Sassy Tree Summary
Olive Ann Burns

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Cold Sassy Tree Summary

Cold Sassy Tree, set in post civil war, Georgia, is about a family that is undergoing a rapid transformation. Told from fourteen-year-old Will's point of view, the story uncovers a family and a small town's reactions to the death of a grandmother and the quick remarriage of the widowed grandfather.

Cold Sassy is the name of the town where Will Tweedy resides. Will's Granny Blakeslee passed away three weeks ago. The...

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