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Sweetgrass

by Mary Alice Monroe

A family’s inheritance under pressure

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A family’s inheritance under pressure

Sweetgrass is both a historic tract in South Carolina’s Low Country and the Blakely family’s home for eight generations. Rising taxes and development around the property put its future in question, giving the family’s land a central role in tensions already straining their bonds. The novel brings together questions of inheritance, family fracture, and the difficult compromises made in the name of love. Its description also points to forgiveness and the possibility of building a new future while confronting long-standing patterns.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in family-centered literary fiction.
  • Those drawn to stories about family ties and inherited land.
  • Readers seeking fiction set in South Carolina’s Low Country.

Themes

Family and inheritanceLoss and compromiseForgivenessChange and renewal

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Book overview

Mary Alice Monroe returns to the heart of the Low Country with a richly textured story about family, loss and the heartbreaking compromises people make in the name of love.

Sweetgrass is a historic tract of land in South Carolina that has been home to the Blakely family for eight generations. But Sweetgrass--named for the indigenous grass that grows in the area--is in trouble. Taxes are skyrocketing. Bulldozers are leveling the surrounding properties. And the Blakelys could be forced to sell the one thing that continues to hold their disintegrating family together.

In this poignant novel of hope, acceptance and the powerful gift of forgiveness, Mary Alice Monroe paints an intimate portrait of a family that must learn to unravel old patterns and weave together a new future.
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