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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 whole family is in mourning. This means wearing black dresses for the women and mourning armbands for the men. It means no fishing, reading the comics, or in general, partaking of fun activities. The period of mourning typically lasts a full year. Three weeks into the mourning period, Grandpa Blakeslee gets remarried.
The town of Cold Sassy and the family are shocked at the impropriety of what Grandpa Blakeslee has done. He has married the Milliner, Love...
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