Novak begins a three-book series of connected stories set in the small fictional town of Stillwater, Mississippi. In this first novel, ADA Grace Montgomery returns to the town she left 13 years ago--the night that everything went wrong. Now she must confront her own history.
When the heroine said to her brother, who was the only person around, "Ya'll don't know your own sister anymore?" I cringed. CRINGED! I've lived my whole life in the South, mostly Alabama, and I've never heard a Southerner use "ya'll" in the singular. Ya'll always refers to two or more people. And I do believe the correct spelling is y'all, not ya'll.
Sorry to be peevish, but I get irritated when non-Southerners who know nothing about the South try to mimic the way we speak.
I can't wait to read the rest of this book. Even though "y'all" was used in the wrong venacular...the story is intriguing and the mystery has me drawn in.
The story is so easy to fall into...I plan on getting this book!
These excerpts have really piqued my interest. The death/murder of the reverend and his burial on the farm, has made me wonder what he did to deserve it and who actually had done it. The little boy, Teddy has also made me curious as how he ties into the story.
