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Everlasting

Among the many delights to be found in this warm-hearted, graceful novel is its authenticity of language, era and place. Vada Priddy is a veritable mid-twentieth century Everywoman, and Carol Johnson has drawn her with precision, lyricism, a faultless ear for the vernacular—and a great big helping of Oklahoma wit. Everlasting is a treasure of a novel, reminding us how hard it is to live sometimes, how good it is to love, and how decent, finally, people really are.— RILLA ASKEW, author of FIRE IN BEULAH and three time winner of the Oklahoma Book Award.

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