Monthly Archives: February 2012

Book Clubs Vote: Bonus Book of the Year!

Book Clubs Vote: Bonus Book of the Year!

The 525 Pulpwood Queens Book Clubs voted As the Sycamore Grows bonus book of the year for 2012. Kathy Patrick, founder of the network, and John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, presented Jennie Helderman with the award in Jefferson, Texas, at the 12th annual Girlfriends Week extravaganza.
The Pulpwood Queens and their male counterpart, the Timberwood Guys, meet and discuss books across the United States and in 11 other countries. Kathy Patrick recommends one book per month and three bonus books. As the Sycamore Grows was bonus book selection in March, 2011. The previous bonus… [More]

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Praise for As The Sycamore Grows

“Jennie Helderman has taken a heart-breaking issue and boiled it down to human beings, of flesh and blood and lost days and fearful nights. It opens the door on a too-common human story, and closes you in with it.”

Rick Bragg, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Most They Ever Had, All Over But the Shouting, Ava’s Man, and The Prince of Frogtown.

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