Got this at the local thrift store.

As much as I hate to resort to copying the blurb from the book, I'm going to do it for this book because I'm having a hard time bring the story together in my own words. And also because I agree with the discription of the book. So... here's what is written on the book flap: In a lush and isolated cemetery of a small Southern town, Finch Nobles, the narrator of this brilliantly inventive novel, tend to the flowers and shrubs that surround the monuments of people who were not know to her while they lived but who in death have become her lifeline. Badly burned in a houshold accident when she was just four, Finch grows into a courageous and feisty loner. She eschews the pity and awkward stares of the people of her hometown and discovers that if she listens closely enough, she can hear the voices of those who have gone before. Finally, when she speaks, they answer back, telling their stories in a remarkable chorus of regrets, explanations and insights. But the infant Marcus, son of the town's mayor, died before he learned to speak and can only wail away the hours. The roots of his anguish are revealed in a crescendo of lasting resonance that ties together the outcast Finch, her dead friends, and the living community outside the cemetary gates. With prose that is spare, yet richly poetic, Sheri Reynolds creates a vision of a world that is once fantastic and palpably real. She teaches us that neither our capacity to suffer nor our ability to be healed ends with the grave - and that love is all we have. A Gracious Plenty is a reading experience you will not soon forget.

This is a beautifully written book. Ms. Reynolds bring us characters who are believably human without telling us how we should feel about them. There is a little bit of good, bad, pain, shame, heroics, wanting and strength in everyone in the book. I love Finch, Leonard, Lucy and William. I'm looking forward to picking up Sheri Reynolds' other books.

CAUGHT THE BOOK FROM A FRIEND