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In Laurelville, Ohioa small town in the foothills of the Appalachiansnobody knows why Hannah Marshal drowned in Laurel Creek in 1937. But twenty-three years later, her niece, Ruth Sherman, takes it upon herself to find out. With only a few rumors, old newspapers clipping and even some ghost stories about her aunt, Ruth begins to uncover the events surrounding Hannahs death. Ruth dismisses the ghost stories, but she knows all about being haunted by Hannah Marshal. Born eighteen months after Hannahs death, Ruth grows up feeling she is Hannahs replacement. Every major event of her life is heavy with her aunts memory. Ruth hears that she looks like Hannah, acts like Hannah, and many people even call her Hannah. Ruth is a walking reminder of her aunt, a living ghost of a person dead more than a year before her own birth. During the summer of 1960, when Ruth is twenty-one years old, she is pressed by her grandmother to learn the folk cures and healing rituals of Appalachian Christianity. Certain that she is finally being compelled to replace her Aunt Hannah, Ruth decides to discover once and for all the truth around Hannah Marshals death. Ruth finds herself on a journey into the past, th

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Author

Michael Olin-hitt

Publisher

Huron, Ohio: Bottom Dog Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781933964584

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.21 / 5 (22 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14