Pungo Creek

by Brenda Mantz

Overview

ollowing the murder of her father, 9 year old Clara finds herself on Pungo Creek in an old house shared with her Great Aunt Sarah, her mother Rose and her younger sister Ivy. Rose sinks into alcoholism and is unable to shield her daughters from the volatile tempers, destructive behavior, incest and bleakness that have permeated the lives of the women of Pungo Creek for generations. Their grandmother silently endured her husband's rage. Her Uncle Benjamin molested his sister Pearl. When her cousin Kate is raped and murdered by her own brother - the same person who is assaulting Clara - the defenseless girl, having no refuge and no protector, makes a horrific choice.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940011808586
Publisher:	Brenda Mantz
Publication date:	10/05/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	252
File size:	117 KB

About the Author

Brenda Mantz' first novel, Pungo Creek, was inspired by her own childhood on Pungo Creek in rural North Carolina where she grew up in a house shared by three generations. She is a freelance writer and photographer. Her work has appeared in Photo District News, Washingtonian Magazine, Solutions and Rough Notes. She founded InPrint Magazine, a magazine for professional photographers, for which she was honored with the Federal Photographers Award for Excellence. She is an active member of the International Womens Writing Guild and the National Writers Union. President of her own risk management firm in Washington, DC, Brenda lives in Falls Church, Virginia with her husband and their two dogs. She is currently at work on her thirdnovel.

Editorial Reviews

I was swallowed up by Pungo Creek. I breathed in its cooling, brackish water and filled myself with it. I would have died like many others if it had been the actual water, but fortunately for me it was just the book. Pungo Creek climbs the family tree of the Foremans, following the lives of people whose tough existence has been bedeviled by poverty, alcoholism, violence, death, incest, and rape. It is a grim, gritty, and spellbinding tale. Brenda Mantz is a powerful storyteller.

Al Boss