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Writing about family with a poignant intensity, bestselling author Deborah Smith draws on her Georgia roots to create the story of a New York artist and a modern Southern woman whose fates are about to entwine...
Dirt-poor, sensitive as poets, and proud as kings, the Powell family has lived on a Georgia mountaintop for generations. Then, during the 1960s, young Ursula Powell's father convinces the Tiber family, owners of everything in nearby Tiberville, to commission a huge iron sculpture of a bear for the town. Decades later the strange sculpture-rejected by the townspeople and left to rust on the Powell farm-symbolizes a family's failure and thwarted dreams. But, unknown to Ursula, it is now worth such a huge fortune that the artist's embittered son, Quentin Ricconni, is coming to reclaim it...and to change everything Ursula believes about the past, the choices that break a heart, and the redeeming powers of art and love.
Dirt-poor, sensitive as poets, and proud as kings, the Powell family has lived on a Georgia mountaintop for generations. Then, during the 1960s, young Ursula Powell's father convinces the Tiber family, owners of everything in nearby Tiberville, to commission a huge iron sculpture of a bear for the town. Decades later the strange sculpture-rejected by the townspeople and left to rust on the Powell farm-symbolizes a family's failure and thwarted dreams. But, unknown to Ursula, it is now worth such a huge fortune that the artist's embittered son, Quentin Ricconni, is coming to reclaim it...and to change everything Ursula believes about the past, the choices that break a heart, and the redeeming powers of art and love.