Charms for the easy life

Description

A family without men, the Birches live gloriously offbeat lives in the lush, green backwoods of North Carolina. Radiant, headstrong Sophia and her shy, brilliant daughter, Margaret, possess powerful charms to ward off loneliness, despair, and the human misery that often beats a path to their door. And they are protected by the eccentric wisdom and muscular love of the remarkable matriarch Charlie Kate, a solid, uncompromising, self-taught healer who treats everything from boils to broken bones to broken hearts. Sophia, Margaret, and Charlie Kate find strength in a time when women almost always depended on men, and their bond deepens as each one experiences love and loss during World War II. Charms for the Easy Life is a passionate, luminous, and exhilarating story about embracing what life has to offer ... even if it means finding it in unconventional ways.

First Sentence

ALREADY by her twentieth birthday, my grandmother was an excellent midwife, in great demand.

Description

Three women find solace in an eccentric household in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Subjects

Genres

• Fiction.

Other Editions

• Charms for the easy lifePutnam1993-01-01
• Charms for the easy lifeWheeler Pub.1993-01-01
• Charms for the easy life.Abacus1994-01-01
• Charms for the easy lifeAvon Books1994-01-01
• Charms for the Easy LifeAudio CassetteAudioworks1999-01-01
• Charms for the Easy LifeSchool & Library BindingTandem Library1999-10-01