The Shrouding Woman

The Shrouding Woman
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Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Total Pages : 164
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ISBN-10 : 9781429932462
ISBN-13 : 1429932465
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Book Synopsis The Shrouding Woman by : Loretta Ellsworth

Download or read book The Shrouding Woman written by Loretta Ellsworth and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2007-06-12 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The moving story of a young girl's struggle to face her mother's death. "She traveled to our small white house near the Iowa border on a buckboard, her green bag caked with the dusty road . . . I knew that she was called "the Shrouding Woman" because I'd heard Papa use those words to describe her. I didn't know what it meant but I knew it had something to do with death." It was once common practice for small towns to have a shrouding woman to help put their dead to rest. Still, when eleven-year-old Evie's Aunt Flo-herself a shrouding woman-comes to town, Evie knows little of a shrouding woman's ways and wants nothing to do with this aunt of hers, especially after her own mother's recent death. But as this mysterious woman slowly makes her way into Evie's life, her strong and sensitive presence brings far more than signs of death to a grieving girl's home. Set in the mid-1800s, this beautifully written story, centered on the little-known practice of shrouding, touches on death and healing with sensitivity and quiet dignity.


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