The Last Carolina Girl A Novel

For fourteen-year-old Leah Payne, life in her beloved coastal Carolina town is simple and free, devoted to her lumberjack father and the wilds where the forest meets the shore. When an accident takes her father's life, Leah is wrenched from her small community and cast into a family of strangers with a terrible secret. Separated from her only home, she is forced to act as a helpmate in the well-to-do household. Set in 1935 against the very real backdrop of a recently formed state eugenics board, a moment of violence and prejudice thrusts Leah into the center of the state's shameful darkness, forcing her to fight for her future, her body, and her right to create a future all her own.

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