Publisher description for Seek the living / by Ashley Warlick.
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Acclaimed for creating young women of passion and spirit, Warlick lends her lyrical southern voice to Joan Patee, who is desperate to start a new family while trying to hold her own together.
When Joan"s wayward brother, Denny, gets beaten up for an unknown transgression, their father sends Joan to deliver an ultimatum. She discovers that Denny has been digging up the graves of the cemetery he tends, finding mysterious remains that might be from the Civil War. An archivist, Joan is drawn into Denny"s obsession. But it is her own wild streak that is unearthed, including an affair that still haunts her.
Seek the Living is infused with the sensual melancholy, brash
sexuality, and warm compassion that define Warlick"s work.
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Young women Fiction, Women archivists Fiction, Brothers and sisters Fiction, Cemetery managers Fiction, Southern States Fiction