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1984 novel by Olive Ann Burns
Cold Sassy tree

Author
Olive Ann Burns
Country
United States
Language
English
Genre
Historical
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Publication date
November 1984
Media type
Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages
391 pp (hardback edition)
ISBN
0-89919-309-9 (hardback edition)
OCLC
10780543
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 19
LC Class
PS3552.U73248 C6 1984
Followed by
Leaving Cold Sassy
Cold Sassy Tree is a 1984 historical novel by Olive Ann Burns. Set in the US state of Georgia in the fictional town of Cold Sassy (based on the real city of Harmony Grove, now Commerce) in 1906, it follows the life of a 14-year-old boy named Will Tweedy, and explores themes such as religion, death, and social taboos. An incomplete sequel to the novel, Leaving Cold Sassy, was published in 1992 after Burns' death. Plot summary
On July 5, 1906, Enoch Rucker Blakeslee announces that he intends to marry Miss Love Simpson, a milliner at his store who is years younger than he. This news shocks his family, since his wife Mattie Lou died only three weeks earlier. Rucker’s daughters, Mary Willis and Loma, worry about what the gossips of Cold Sassy will think of their father’s impropriety. Will Tweedy, Rucker’s 14-year-old grandson and the novel's narrator, supports his grandfather’s marriage. He thinks Miss Love is nice and pretty, although she comes from Baltimore and therefore is practically a Yankee. Will thinks Rucker needs someone to look after him now that Mattie Lou is gone. On the afternoon of Rucker and Miss Love's elopement, Will sneaks off to go fishing in the country, despite the fact that he is supposed to be in mourning for his grandmother.