So Dear to My Heart

By: Sterling North

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Synopsis: Indiana in the days of lamplight, gingham tablecloths, slat bonnets, and copper-toed shoes comes alive in this nostalgic novel by one of America’s best-loved story tellers--Sterling North--author of that other memoir of a joyous era, Rascal. The story begins when Jeremiah Tarleton, a lonesome ten-year-old orphan is living with his proud, religious Granny Kinkaid. An artist with her loom, Granny is seeking to tell the complicated and passionate story of Jeremiah’s heritage and of her own bitterness against the Tarleton family by weaving a multicolored counterpane of “story covers. Two themes run through Jeremiah’s life during the spring and summer of the story. One is the slowly unfolding tale taking shape under Granny’s work-gnarled hands, and the other is the boy’s fiercely protective affection for a black lamb—a forbidden possession. So Dear To My Heart is a story of emotional depth and beauty, filled with the gaiety, songs, dances, and color of Indiana in the early days of the century.