![]() ![]() Will thinks Rucker needs someone to look after him now that Mattie Lou is gone. He thinks Miss Love is nice and pretty, although she comes from Baltimore and therefore is practically a Yankee. Will Tweedy, Rucker’s 14-year-old grandson and the novel's narrator, supports his grandfather’s marriage. Rucker’s daughters, Mary Willis and Loma, worry about what the gossips of Cold Sassy will think of their father’s impropriety. This news shocks his family, since his wife Mattie Lou died only three weeks earlier. On July 5, 1906, Enoch Rucker Blakeslee announces that he intends to marry Miss Love Simpson, a milliner at his store who is years younger than he. An incomplete sequel to the novel, Leaving Cold Sassy, was published in 1992 after Burns' death. ![]() state of Georgia in the fictional town of Cold Sassy (based on the real city of Harmony Grove, now Commerce) in 1906, it follows the life of a 14-year-old boy named Will Tweedy, and explores themes such as religion, death, and social taboos. Cold Sassy Tree is a 1984 historical novel by Olive Ann Burns. ![]()
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