Sing the Morning, Cry at Night, a Novel by Barbara J. Taylor

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Release Date: 07/01/2014

Trade Paper (256 pages)

ISBN 978-1-61775-227-8

Almost everyone in town blames eight-year-old Violet Morgan for the death of her nine-year-old sister, Daisy.Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night opens on September 4, 1913, two months after the Fourth of July tragedy. Owen, the girls’ father, “turns to drink” and abandons his family. Their mother Grace falls victim to the seductive powers of Grief, an imagined figure who has seduced her off-and-on since childhood. Violet forms an unlikely friendship with Stanley Adamski, a motherless outcast who works in the mines as a breaker boy. During an unexpected blizzard, Grace goes into premature labor at home and is forced to rely on Violet, while Owen is “off being saved” at a Billy Sunday Revival. Inspired by a haunting family story, Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night blends real life incidents with fiction to show how grace can be found in the midst of tragedy.

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