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ID: 251527
Title: Lum: A Novel
Author: Libby Ware
Narrator: Janet Metzger
Format: Unabridged
Length: 07:05:56
Language: English
Release date: 10-20-15
Publisher: Big Happy Family Audio
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction
Summary:
In 1933 in the Shenandoah Valley, there isnt a place for Lum (short for Columbia), a 33yearold intersex woman. She travels by schedule from one branch of the family to another, assisting with cooking, childcare and housework. Always an outsider, even in her own family, Lum secretly collects postcards of people like the Dogfaced Girl, imagining their stories, and nurtures her lifelong friendship with Smiley, an AfricanAmerican man who sells furniture, oddsandends, and a little moonshine. She makes friends with another outsider, a young Melungeon man from an isolated community high in the mountains, who is fresh out of prison. Scenes from Lum's childhood and young adulthood are interspersed with chapters taking place in 1933 when Lum is 33 years old.
But Lums world changes when a local banker becomes ill and needs care. Sent to assist, she forms an unlikely friendship with the curmudgeonly old man. At the same time, the federal highway administration comes scouting land, wanting to buy the family farm for a new scenic highway. Lums relatives dont want to sell, and theyre not alone.
As tensions over the highway escalate toward violence, and as loyalties are tested, Lum takes a bold step to create an independent life.
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