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The School on Heart's Content Road (Heart's Content, Bk 1) (Audio CD) (Unabridged)
The School on Heart's Content Road - Heart's Content, Bk 1 - Audio CD - Unabridged Author:Carolyn Chute, Susan Ericksen (Narrator) Carolyn Chute returns to the unforgettable town of Egypt, Maine, and delivers a rousing, politically charged portrait of another group of lives on the margins of our society. — The School on Heart’s Content Road begins with the story of Mickey Gammon, a fifteen-year-old dropout who has been evicted from home by his half-brother. Alone, Mick... more »ey is introduced to the secretive world of the Settlement and its leader, a man known to many as the “The Prophet.” A rural cooperative in alternative energy, farm produce, and local goods, the Settlement is demonized by the media as a compound of sin, and its true nature remains foreign to outsiders. It is at the Settlement where Mickey’s life collides with that of another deserted child, six-year-old Jane – a cunning, beautiful girl of mixed race, whose mother is in jail on trumped up drug charges. “Secret Agent Jane” prowls the Settlement in her heart-shaped sunglasses, imagining that her childish plans to bring down the community will reunite her with her mother. As they struggle to adjust to their new, complex surrogate family, Mickey and Jane witness the mounting unrest within the Settlement’s ranks, which soon builds to a shocking and devastating crescendo.
Read by Susan Ericksen. 15 audio discs (18 hr.) « less