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A Place to Rest
A Place to Rest
A Place to Rest
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"A Place to Rest by Tom Miller is an absolutely wonderful book that I could not put down once I started...I was very impressed with every part of the writing and think that it is a story for anyone, regardless of the genre that you are most partial to." -- Reader Views

 

A Place to Rest is a journey of discovery through the rapidly changing landscape of the post-World War II American South as viewed from the perspective of best friends, Mildred Morgan and Janet Bell. The pair grew up together in rural Grover's Fork, Alabama, and remained inseparable through college, despite having little in common. Mildred is the classic wallflower—soft-spoken, malleable, and emotionally fraught. Janet is outspoken, iconoclastic, and highly ambitious. After college, the two part ways.

Mildred returns to Grover's Fork, where she becomes a high school librarian. Living at home and sociallyadrift, she marries a fellow teacher and starts a family. Her carefully constructed safe harbor is shaken by the mysterious disappearance of her husband, and she turns toher young son, James, for emotional ballast and meaning. Janet lands a job as a reporter for the Montgomery Observer and settles in the state capital where she covers the Civil Rights movement as a Pulitzer-Prize-winningjournalist. Even as her professional career flourishes, she remains vaguely unsatisfied. Despite their geographicalseparation and different paths, both are buffeted by the winds of change sweeping through the South in the 1950s.

Sharing their hopes and fears, dreams and nightmares, triumphs and tragedies in a vivid and unsparing correspondence, Mildred and Janet continue to navigate a journey to find meaning and hope in an indifferent world.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateFeb 14, 2022
ISBN9798201923105
A Place to Rest
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Tom Miller

Tom Miller grew up in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. He graduated from Harvard University and went on to earn an MFA in creative writing from the University of Notre Dame and an MD from the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of The Philosopher’s Flight and The Philosopher’s War. He works as an emergency room doctor.

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