Book
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Bells for Eli : a novel
Call Number
- FICTION ZURE (CEN)
Publication Information
Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, 2020.
Physical Description
270 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
"First cousins Ellison (Eli) Winfield and Adeline (Delia) Green are meant to grow up happily and innocently across the street from one another amid the supposed wholesome values of small-town Green Branch, South Carolina, in the 1960s and 70s. But Eli's tragic accident changes the trajectory of their lives and of those connected to them. Shunned and even tortured by his peers for his disfigurement and frailty, Eli struggles for acceptance in childhood as Delia passionately devotes herself to defending him