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The Last Carolina Girl

by Meagan Church

A girl’s fight for autonomy in 1935 Carolina

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A girl’s fight for autonomy in 1935 Carolina

Set in coastal Carolina during 1935, the novel follows fourteen-year-old Leah Payne after her father’s death removes her from the community she calls home. Placed in a well-to-do household, she is separated from the family and made to serve as a helpmate. The source description connects Leah’s struggle for a future of her own with the history of a recently formed state eugenics board, placing questions of bodily autonomy, prejudice, and family within a specific Southern setting. Her attachment to the coastal landscape and the people she considers home anchors a story about what is lost when others seek to control her life.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers interested in historical fiction set in the American South.
  • For book clubs exploring bodily autonomy, prejudice, and forgotten history.
  • For readers drawn to stories about family, home, and a young person’s fight for independence.

Themes

Bodily autonomyPrejudice and social controlForgotten historyFamily and belonging

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Book overview

"Unforgettable, this a powerful debut to savor." -- Kim Michele Richardson, New York Times bestselling author of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

A searing book club novel for fans of Where the Crawdad's Sing and The Girls in the Stilt House following one girl fighting for her family, her body, and her right to create a future all her own

Some folks will do anything to control the wild spirit of a Carolina girl...

For fourteen-year-old Leah Payne, life in her beloved coastal Carolina town is as simple as it is free. Devoted to her lumberjack father and running through the wilds where the forest meets the shore, Leah's country life is as natural as the Loblolly pines that rise to greet the Southern sky.

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, Leah is kept apart from the family and forced to act as a helpmate for the well-to-do household. When a moment of violence and prejudice thrusts Leah into the center of the state's shameful darkness, she must fight for her own future against a world that doesn't always value the wild spirit of a Carolina girl.

Set in 1935 against the very real backdrop of a recently formed state eugenics board, The Last Carolina Girl is a powerful and heart-wrenching story of fierce strength, forgotten history, autonomy, and the places and people we ultimately call home.

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