Feather Crowns Summary
Bobbie Ann Mason

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Feather Crowns Summary

In Feather Crowns, themes of family, motherhood, identity, religion, imagination, superstition, public reaction and sheer survival weave in and out of the story. A sensitive woman among common farm folk, Christie finds herself teetering on the brink of insanity more than once during this epic-long story of one woman's coping mechanism with life. Living among people who consider the birth of her quintuplets comparable to that of a pig's litter, Christie struggles to...

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