With a Hammer for My Heart: A Novel
George Ella Lyon
224 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0813191750
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Language: English
Publish: March 30, 2007
With a Hammer for My Heart is the story of Lawanda, a precocious, poverty-stricken fifteen-year-old girl from Cardin, Kentucky, who dreams of attending college. When Lawanda’s friendship with an alcoholic World War II veteran named Garland is misinterpreted by their fellow townspeople, a tragedy calls her future into question.