Now, in 1917, Grandpa is gone, and boarding with Miss Love is that ``pure-T beauty,'' new schoolteacher Sanna Maria Klein, who's infatuated with a Harvard boy-until her disastrous visit to his fancy home when bath water floods a festive board. The previous novel concerned the adventures of narrator Will Tweedy, then 14, of Cold Sassy Tree, Georgia, who among others wondered at the shocking marriage of newly widowed Grandpa Blakeslee and the stylish Miss Love.
Burns's editor, Katrina Kenison, who was left with notes and letters by the author to indicate plotlines beyond the 15 finished chapters here, has contributed a tribute and personal reminiscence. Now comes this partial sequel-which continues the story of Will Tweedy and the courting of his future wife-that Burns, with extraordinary courage, worked on through her final illness.
1990) published Cold Sassy Tree-a spirited, southern small-town rural tale with robust characters and a regional period (1906) diction that was as tangy and real as grits.
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