Lamb in His Bosom

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{ May 2021 - Verified ebook for complete book description, cover, table of contents, content separation, and epub format error checking. } Paperback, 369 pages Published 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1934) Afterword by: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese This 1934 Pulitzer Prize winner tells the story of a pair of young newlyweds in antebellum rural Georgia. The Pulitzer Prize-winner Lamb in His Bosom tells the story of Cean and Lonzo, a young couple who begin their married lives two decades before the Civil War in a land where nature is hostile, the seasons dictate the law, and the days are punctuated by the hard work of the land. Cean and Lonzo's only wealth is their hands, their obstinacy, and their love. By the time Cean is forty-three, she has borne fourteen children, buried five of them and her husband, and survived civil war, a venomous snakebite, a ferocious panther attack, and a deadly house fire. Neither life, nor the din of history has spared her. More than just a war history, author Caroline Miller's quietly lyrical prose style pays poignant tribute to a woman's life lived close to nature. In this transcendent tale of love and loss in the Old South, a woman and her family struggle to build their lives deep in the Georgia backwoods, among poor settlers who never owned a slave or planned to fight a war. Caroline Miller's classic novel follows the story of fierce, courageous Cean Smith as she bears witness to cycles of birth and death, marriage and betrayal in the Civil War era. Richly authentic and lyrically descriptive, Lamb in His Bosom pays poignant tribute to a woman's life lived on the line between the nature outside her and the nature within.