A Wiregrass Childhood

<p>During the early years of America in the wiregrass country of Irwin County Georgia two brothers and a strange boy meet by chance in the local river that runs deep with memory and myth history and vitality. Micah is a quiet sensitive boy with a rare ear for music. His older brother Isaac watches the world with the steady eye of someone wiser than his years. And Oak a Creek boy from a nearby village carries the weight of his people's stories and the silent worry of what's to come. They didn't mean to find each other yet somehow it seems fated to be. Friendship grows in the hush of pine forests and the music drifting from Micah's violin--friendship that defies the hard lines drawn between settlers and native people as they navigate a tumultuous time of tension between the Creek natives and white settles. B<strong>lending history and fiction <em>A Wiregrass Childhood </em>is a tender haunting story of connection land and the quiet courage of boyhood.</strong></p>