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Gibbons, Kaye was born in 1960 in Nash County, North Carolina, United States.
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Kaye Gibbons two book collection. Kaye Gibbons has compiled what one critic has called "a fictional oral history of female wishes and hopes." 1) A CURE FOR DREAMS. An engaging portrait of a possessive mother and her obedient daughter, limned against a larger canvas depicting women's roles in southern society. This episodic novel, Gibbons's third, is set during the Depression in back-country Virginia and Kentucky. In 19 vignettes, Betty Davies Randolph reveals her childhood and her mother's life along Milk Farm Road. 2) ELLEN FOSTER. The appealing, eponymous, 11-year-old orphan heroine of this Southern-focused debut survives appalling situations until she finds safe harbor in a good foster home. Ellen is an old woman in a child's body; her frail, unhappy mother dies, her abusive father alternately neglects her and makes advances on her, and she is shuttled from one uncaring relative's home to another before she finally takes matters into her own hands and finds herself a place to belong.
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In her novels Ellen Foster and A Virtuous Woman, Kaye Gibbons has compiled what one critic has called "a fictional oral history of female wishes and hopes." That tradition continues in A Cure for Dreams, a richly woven story that traces the bonds between four generations of Southern women through stories passed from mother to daughter to granddaughter. Gibbons shows us shrewd, resourceful women prevailing over hard times and heartless men and finding unexpected pleasures along the way: gossip, gambling, and the quiet satisfaction of knowing more than they're supposed to.
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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. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
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Gibbons, Kaye was born in 1960 in Nash County, North Carolina, United States.
Student, University North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Gibbons was born in Nash County, North Carolina, and went to Rocky Mount Senior High School. She attended North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, studying American and English literature. Gibbons has three daughters.
Gibbons has bipolar disorder, and notes that she is extremely creative during her manic phases, in which she believes that everything is instrumented by a "real magic".
Ellen Foster was written during one such phase. In November 2008, Gibbons was arrested on prescription drug fraud charges.
According to authorities, Gibbons was taken into custody on November 2, 2008, while trying to pick up a fraudulent prescription for the painkiller hydrocodone. She was sentenced to a 90-day suspended sentence, 2 years probation, and a $300 fine.
( In the verdant backwoods of North Carolina, in a sad a...)
(A sequel to the now-classic Ellen Foster picks up Ellen's...)
(In her novels Ellen Foster and A Virtuous Woman, Kaye Gib...)
( A family without men, the Birches live gloriously offbe...)
(Kaye Gibbons talks about her long awaited sequel to the b...)
(Kaye Gibbons two book collection. Kaye Gibbons has compil...)
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Gibbons is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and two of her books, Ellen Foster and A Virtuous Woman, were selected for Oprah"s Book Club in 1998.
