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Set in a small Georgia town in 1906, Olive Ann Burns’s historical novel Cold Sassy Tree explores the social mores and taboos of the time through the eyes of fourteen-year-old Will Tweedy, who witnesses his grandfather Enoch's controversial marriage to a younger woman, Miss Love Simpson, shortly after his grandmother's death, leading to a series of dramatic events that confront the values and prejudices of the tight-knit community. The book includes sensitive topics involving past trauma.