| ID | Title | Characters | Setting | Brief Review (Events) | Number of pages or number of words | Additional information | Box # | Folder # | Date published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 140 | Paw Paw Patch | Chanell
Foster Bell Joy Beth Linda Gay |
Cornerville, GA in Swanoochee County | At froty, Chanell Foster is proud and populr in her hometown. Her beauty shop is more than her business--it is the town's social hub-- and one's status in Cornerville is ensured by a standing weekly appointment in Chanell's book. But life in a small southern town can change without warning. For Chanell, it begins when several of her regular customers fail to appear for their appointments one morning. By day's end her salon is completely empty, as if the plague itself had been discovered there. Chanell doesn't understand the reason, but she knows a smalltownsocial lynching when she sees one. Her best and truest friend, Bell, assures her that nothing is wrong, yet two of her closest friends since childhood, Joy Beth and Linda Gay, wont even look her in the eye. It is only after overhearing a hushed conversation that Chanell realizes the ugly trught: she is the focus of a hateful, racist rumor that has spread like wildfire through her small town. Where Chanell was once beloved she isnow outcast across racial barriers erected by her own friends and townspeople. On the verge of losing her business, Chanell embraces the role of the anomaly in which the town has cast her. By giving Cornerville a dose of its own medicine, Chanell forces the town to turn its face to the mirror of hatred, leading to a wonderfully poignant, ironic, and triumphant conclusion. | 259 | Paw
Paw Patch-Folder containing letter from Don Congdon Associates, Inc
sending regrets that Ellen Gilchrist will not contribut to the anthology
for Snake Nation; Letter from HarperCollins Publishers includes a
magazine article "Shop Talk" Allure October 1994, 9/29/94;
PawPaw Patch information from Amazon.com; Proof of Mitcfhell's Talent by
John Wiley Jr. July/August 1996 Georgia Journal; HarperCollins
Publishers New Release Pawpaw Patch; Reviews Publishers Weekly March, 4,
1996KirKus Review February 15, 1996; That Bookstore in Blytheville
newsletter article Janince Daugherty April 1996. This folder is the box
with other letters, articles, etc. on other books.Newspaper and Journal
Articles:Paw Paw Patch - AKA - Along a Wider River Establishing Scene/Handling Time; From Rags to Reading-That bookstore in Blytheville-5/97; Daugharty's World-Valdosta Daily Times-12/3/00 (2 copies); Pap Paw Patch: A Novel by Janice Daughtary-amazon.com; Paw Paw Patch Kirkus Reviews-2/15/96; Daugharty named VSU's writer in residence-Valdosta Daily Times-7/25/96; Advertisment for book; From rags to readings-FolioWeek -11/5/96; The power of words in a southern setting-News Record-8/18/96; Way down yonder in the `Paw Paw Patch'-New York Times Book Review-6/23/96; Mischievous heroine fights bigotry in small GA town-4/28/96; Mutilations baffle three sisters-Chattanooga Times-4/26/96; Daugharty lecture series ends -4/19/96; Paw Paw Patch -Library Journal-4/15/96; Pawpaw Patch. Book Reviews Fiction-Library Journal 4/15/96; Reception, book party for noted area novelist-Valdosta Daily Times-3/17/96; Albany Harald-3/14/96; PawPaw Patch-Weekly-3/4/96; Author to give reading at Piedmont library-Northeast Georgian-1-12-96; Pawpaw Patch-Kirkus Review-2/15/96; New voice stirs up the swamp-Fort Lauderdale Sun~Sentinel; South Georgia author featured; VSU and Georgia Humanities Council-Valdosta Daily Times-3/17/96; Books-A-Million-3/17/96 |
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