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The Last Carolina Girl
The Last Carolina Girl: A Novel | Meagan Church
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A searing book club novel for fans of Where the Crawdad's Sing and The Girls in the Stilt House following one girl fighting for her family, her body, and her right to create a future all her own Some folks will do anything to control the wild spirit of a Carolina girl... For fourteen-year-old Leah Payne, life in her beloved coastal Carolina town is as simple as it is free. Devoted to her lumberjack father and running through the wilds where the forest meets the shore, Leah's country life is as natural as the Loblolly pines that rise to greet the Southern sky. When an accident takes her father's life, Leah is wrenched from her small community and cast into a family of strangers with a terrible secret. Separated from her only home, Leah is kept apart from the family and forced to act as a helpmate for the well-to-do household. When a moment of violence and prejudice thrusts Leah into the center of the state's shameful darkness, she must fight for her own future against a world that doesn't always value the wild spirit of a Carolina girl. Set in 1935 against the very real backdrop of a recently formed state eugenics board, The Last Carolina Girl is a powerful and heart-wrenching story of fierce strength, forgotten history, autonomy, and the places and people we ultimately call home.
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This book explores the use of eugenics in NC through a fictional character. Eugenics was unfortunately a practice that was used in NC until the 1970s. The state has since set up a fund to pay victims for what they had to endure. In the story Leah‘s father passes away suddenly (her mom died when she was born). The story takes place in the 1930s & there are definite distinctions between classes. As well as Leah growing up near the beach to moving to

ncsufoxes a bigger city, Matthews (which is outside of Charlotte). Some parts want to make you scream but then realizing that this is the 1930s & life just sucked if you were poor. #bookspin book 1y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 1y
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Fun read, in the spirit of “Where the crawdads Sing” about growing up poor and persecuted in North Carolina .

Reecaspieces I enjoyed this one! 1y
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Fans of Southern fiction will devour this book and want to take Leah into their home to keep her from the treatment she received.

FULL REVIEW: https://tinyurl.com/53mtkbvw

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Lsmoore43
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HAPPY PUB DAY!!

Loved this book.
Full review: https://tinyurl.com/2reptxnp

Meagan Church, Writer
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carolcharityhome Hi there 2y
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Lsmoore43 I agree. So so good. 2y
Reecaspieces @Lsmoore43 ❤️❤️❤️ 2y
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I've read a few emotional books in my time. Some that really kept me weeping all the way through. This is one of them. This is emotional on a whole new level though. I learned a few things while reading this book. A few things that we all should know and prevent from ever happening again.

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This book is so good. It's very emotional also.

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FULL REVIEW 2/28.

THE LAST CAROLINA GIRL is very well written and well researched but heartbreaking to see how Leah was treated when all she wanted was a family of her own.

A beautiful, thoughtful read that requires tissues...it has been compared to WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING and NECESSARY LIES.

You won‘t want to miss this one. 5/5

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