So dear to my heart

by Sterling North

Indiana in the days of lamplight, gingham tablecloths, slat bonnets and copper-toed shoes comes alive in this nostalgic novel by one of America's best-loved story tellers--Sterling North. The story begins when Jeremiah Tarleton, a lonesome ten-year-old orphan is living with his proud, religious Granny Kinkaid. An artist with her loom, Granny is seeking to tell the complicated and passionate story of Jeremiah's heritage and of her own bitterness against the Tarleton family by weaving a multicolored counterpane of "story covers." Two themes run through Jeremiah's life during the spring...