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Charlotte Morgan
Hurricane Camille collided with two summer storms over Nelson County, Virginia, one night in 1969. Stories from that catastrophic rainfall still echo with tales of love lost, secrets buried, hopes awakened, evil averted. "One August Day" captures the unforgettable power and poignance of five of those stories. One ordinary hot, humid August morning, three women and two men in different parts of Virgina wake up and go about their business. By ten o'clock that night their lives, though as different and disconnected as five people can be, will be linked forever. Helen Jansky a middle-aged mother of three, seemingly trapped in a loveless marriage. Charlotte Fairchild is a mentally unstable elderly woman wandering in the past on her deceased father's farm. Judy Marsh another lonely woman abandons a safe single life in Richmond to join a lover in Lexington. Ex-con Clarence Winston is a migrant peach farmer and dangerous loner. Sixteen-year-old Daniel Alexander is a runaway trying to make a new life in Nelson County. As the muggy day unfolds, all these characters make unexpected choices and decisions that bring them closer to one another. Strangers connected only by loneliness and longing, these five adults, through chance circumstance and natural occurrence, become bound together forever in mystery.
December 1, 1998 by Van Neste Books
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