Ivorie Walker, unmarried in her early thirties, is considered an old maid in her Tennessee town in the 1950s. When her mother dies, she discovers she is lonely and begins to return affection to a widower, George. Then she discovers a feral boy who cannot speak stealing from her garden. As she interacts with him, she realizes he is abused and neglected. She must rescue him. But someone from the town attacks her in the dark, on her own porch, to warn her off from involving herself with the boy. Even George distances himself from her. What is she willing to sacrifice for this boy?
A compelling story
Warning: physical abuse, inferred sexual abuse, the abuser swears, adultery/an affair
-Borrowed from the library
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