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    The Last Carolina Girl
    The Last Carolina Girl
    The Last Carolina Girl
    Audiobook9 hours

    The Last Carolina Girl

    Written by Meagan Church

    Narrated by Susan Bennett

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Some folks will do anything to break the wild spirit of a Carolina girl

    For fourteen-year-old Leah Payne, life in her beloved coastal Carolina town is as simple as it is free. Devoted to her lumberjack father and running through the wilds where the forest meets the shore, Leah’s country life is as natural to her as the loblolly pines that rise to greet the Southern sky.

    When an accident takes her father’s life, Leah is wrenched from her small community and cast into a family of strangers with a terrible secret. Separated from her only home, Leah is kept apart from the family and forced to act as a helpmate for the well-to-do household. When a moment of violence and
    prejudice thrusts Leah into the center of the state’s shameful darkness, she must fight for her own future against a world that doesn’t always value the wild spirit of a Carolina girl.

    Set in 1935 against the very real backdrop of a recently formed state eugenics board, The Last Carolina Girl is a powerful and heart-wrenching story of fierce strength, forgotten history, autonomy, and the places and people we ultimately call home.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMar 28, 2023
    ISBN9781705094518
    The Last Carolina Girl
    Author

    Meagan Church

    After receiving a degree in English with a focus on creative writing from Indiana University, Meagan Church built a career as a storyteller and freelance writer for brands, blogs and organizations. Her fiction focuses on overlooked and oppressed women’s voices from the past. A Midwesterner by birth, she now lives in North Carolina with her high school sweetheart, three children and a plethora of pets. To learn more about her writing, visit www.MeaganChurch.com, or follow her on Instagram and Twitter @mchurchwriter.

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    • 4/5
      Enjoyed this book, but felt it took too long to get to the climax of the storyline and also felt it could have gone a bit longer, too. Overall, good book, though.
    • 3/5
      The situation the main character was placed in was beyond sad. I wanted so much more for her. But so many things were inextricable. Why did her mother marry her father and why on earth didn’t the Barna’s just keep her if they wanted her but Mrs Barna didn’t seem to want to but then did?? And for Pete sake, if Leah wasn’t “simple” why couldn’t she do at least a few things right? Any girl in that time period would have known not to be in a boys room (period!) much less with the door shut. And finding those letters was HUGE but she forgot about them allowing herself to be caught. And couldn’t she have defended herself when she was so wronged? At least once? I kept waiting to see more strength, more intelligence, more grit to show she wasn’t what her aunt was saying she was. But she just kept illustrating her incapacity. I believed there was more to Leah but waited in vain to see signs it was true and that was a frustrating and never fulfilled wait.