The Truest Pleasure

Ginny, who marries Tom at the turn of the century after her family has given up on her ever marrying, narrates THE TRUEST PLEASURE—the story of their life together on her father’s farm in the western North Carolina mountains. They have a lot in common—love of the land and fathers who fought in the Civil War. Tom’s father died in the war, but Ginny’s father came back to western North Carolina to hold on to the farm and turn a profit. Ginny’s was a childhood of relative security, Tom’s one of l…