Dogwood Blues, by Brenda Rose
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Told through the voices of its eccentric characters, Dogwood Blues, a work of southern fiction, is a story of a small southern town, Dogwood, Georgia, struggling with change and malicious gossip. Award-winning New York author Kevin Kilmer moves back to Dogwood to write his memoir. He brings his tattooed homosexual lover with him. And Boone Marshall, a farmer who had to sacrifice his career as a blues pianist in New Orleans to take over his family's farm, marries nightclub singer Jasmine Boudreaux a mere six months after his first wife's suicide. Gossipmonger Nell Sauls, a member of the fabulous Honeysuckle Bridge Club, gets wind of the recent events, and drops gossip like bird poop over the historic district. Yet not far from Dogwood, the Alapaha River, the color of tobacco spit, flows in liquid harmony, carrying the scent of something more ancient than the human soul. Dogwood Blues, a story of heartbreak and forgiveness, a story of betrayal and redemption, moans with the blues.
Dogwood Blues, by Brenda Rose- Amazon Sales Rank: #438422 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-03-23
- Released on: 2015-03-23
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review Rose is obsessed with the mysteries of place; the landscape comes fully alive beneath her pen. ~~ Janisse Ray, author of Ecology of a Cracker ChildhoodDogwood Blues by Brenda Sutton Rose is a work of classic small-town fiction, evoking memories of Cold Sassy Tree, by Olive Ann Burns.~~Janice Daugharty, author of Earl in the Yellow ShirtDogwood Blues weaves a tapestry of mysteries that are revealed one by one in a small Georgia town where everyone has at least one secret.~~Elizabeth Jennings, author of The Button Collector
From the Author I spent many hours, many days at the Alapaha River while writing Dogwood Blues. When I was a teenager, my youngest brother and I often hunted for arrowheads near the river. We searched for treasures of all kinds. Joel, my brother, died suddenly in 2010, and that's when I scrapped the novel I was writing at the time. In the quiet hours of the night, I wrote what would later become the second chapter of Dogwood Blues. This work of southern fiction is about a small town dealing with change, with malicious gossip, with controversy; yet it is so much more than those things. It is a story of forgiveness; it is a story of love; it is a story of redemption. And I hope my readers find in Dogwood Blues a rhythm, a love song written for my brother and his love of the Alapaha River.Brenda
About the Author Brenda Sutton Rose lives in southern Georgia. Her essays, poetry, and short stories have been featured in numerous online and print journals. Her first novel, Dogwood Blues, is a work of southern fiction. For more information about Brenda, visit her website at authorbrendasuttonrose.com. She is listed as Brenda Sutton Rose Author on Facebook. She is on Twitter at Sutton_Rose214.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. What fun to read the shenanigans By mimi Ms. Rose nailed small town USA in this book. The characters are real and you will know them well. I really identify with the bridge club. I know all these ladies, the competitively flawed. What fun to read the shenanigans, from the battle of the signs to the who will win the gossip wars. You simply must witness the pain of change when those you want to be the bad guys, are the good guys, and the good ones, well.... Fun fun read.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Dogwood Blues will enchant you! By Dottie Freeman I loved this book from beginning to end. I found myself identifying with many of the characters. They come alive on the pages and you want to know more and more about them. Each character has a story and the author expertly weaves those stories together that culminates in one great story. There were times I laughed out loud, cried and even cheered while reading it. I'm hoping there is a sequel!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Comfortable Read... By KGR When I began reading, I immediately thought of Steel Magnolias as the character Nell could have passed for Weezer’s long lost cousin. One of the first scenes happened in Lottie’s beauty parlor, also reminiscent to Truvey’s salon in the same movie. I was pleasantly surprised when the similarities ended there.The story followed several main characters, some quirky and others a bit less believable, but their differences made up the backbone of a typical small town in the south.Although I didn’t feel there was much of a plot consisting of goals, obstacles and conflicts, there was an enjoyable story told between present day and flashbacks. There were a few epiphanies, a few lessons learned and a humbling experience or two, enough diversity to keep me reading. I thought the letters to the editor were a nice touch lending to the small town feel.The one relationship I thought struggled a bit was the one between Boone and Jasmine. It wasn’t the relationship as much as their dialogue. I understand they are newlyweds, but even at that, often it was too sugary to be realistic.Another dialogue issue I found was unnatural speech. I didn’t find it through the entire read, only in a few areas (Example: Page 131, Damon tells Kevin detail for detail what happened at their sophomore football game when in real life, there would be no need to go through that kind of detailed account with someone who was also there at the time.)Another one can be found on page 99… One of the construction workers is telling Trampus that Dogwood isn’t like New York, or Chicago, or Boston… and how they don’t have smog or subways or homeless folks or fast-talking folks. Generally speaking, men are less verbal than women. That paragraph sounded more ‘speechlike’ than normal, believable dialogue. It wasn’t a huge problem with the read, just random scatterings here and there.Setting and descriptions were good, enough, but not too much. There were several phrases that were original and gave the writing poetic flow (Example: …as clients arrived and departed like carrier pigeons delivering gossip.) Rose ties up the loose ends before the last page leaving the reader satisfied.There were a few minor mistakes; one that stood out was—in modern fiction, when one speaker continues speaking from one paragraph into the next without pause, quotation marks are not used at the end of the first paragraph or the beginning of the next. This allows the reader to instinctively know that the speaker hasn’t changed even though the paragraph has. I came across a couple of instances where the quotation marks were used, even though the same person was speaking, causing me to break flow to double-check my bearings (One example, page 105, between paragraphs 6 and 7) Minor, but something to keep in mind when writing her next book and I do hope there will be a next book.I gave the book 4-stars because I did enjoy it and I felt the author succeeded in breathing life into a fictional small town and gave most of her characters a real feel even if they weren’t exactly in ‘all is lost’ situations. Not for the reader looking for complex plots or thought-provoking issues, but if it’s a light contemporary read you’re looking for, it won’t disappoint.
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