BOOKS BY MARGARET ERHART

 

crossing bully creedThe Butterflies of Grand Canyon | 2009

En route from St. Louis to visit her in-laws in Flagstaff, Arizona, young Jane Merkle meets two women botanists on the train. Their paths cross again after Jane, having lost her luggage and traded her fancy dresses for dungarees and a butterfly net, becomes enthralled....[more]

 

crossing bully creedOld Love | 1996

Old Love is an honest and daring novel about the American family in our time, about shifting loyalties, about loss and rediscovery, about sexual initiation and the human hunger for intimacy. It is the story of Tommie and Frank Haas and their two precocious children ...[more]


crossing bully creedAugusta Cotton | 1992

Told through the voice of Augusta Cotton as she recollects her childhood, this imaginative novel captures the magical and turbulent times of two eleven-year-old girls searching for meaning in the quiet confusion that surrounds them. It is the end of 1963. Augusta’s...[more]

 

crossing bully creedUnusual Company | 1987

Set on both coasts and in the teeming and luminous neighborhoods of Santa Fe, this is the story of how we love: how we arrive at love, and how we are haunted by our lovers when we leave them. Twenty-two-year-old Franny meets Claire, her first love, her first chosen...[more]

 

crossing bully creedBest American Spiritual Writing | 2005

The Best American series has been the premier annual s howcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. For each volume, the very best pieces are selected by a leading writer in the field, making the Best American series the most respected… [more]

 

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“Erhart’s descriptions of her characters are reminiscent of Jane Austen’s in their devastating precision.”

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“A well-crafted, compelling portrait of the Deep South from the Depression to the Vietnam era.”

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Crossing Bully Creek

“On the sickbed there was no difference between man and woman, white and colored, rich and poor,” Rutha Brown observes at the beginning of this richly nuanced novel about the dawning of the Civil Rights Era in the rural South. Henry Detroit, the owner of Longbrow—one of Georgia’s great plantations—is slipping from this world as the 1960s draw to a close. Around him swirls a cast of eclectic characters whose stories are intimately bound to the land. From the searing wit of his wife, Rowena (a descendant of William Tecumseh Sherman), to the strong opinions of his granddaughter, Frankie; from the steady forbearance of the groundskeeper, Lewis, to the visionary declarations of young Roosevelt, the narrative captures the moment when the burdens of oppression and tradition yield to a more complex, hope-filled South.

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Crossing Bully Creek
Margaret Erhart
Milkweed Editions / 2005
ISBN 1-57131-042-8