The Song of the Blue Bottle Tree

Disguised by years in exile and a name she found on a gravestone, an unconventional young woman returns

to her childhood home in rural 1967 Arkansas in this hauntingly visceral Southern tale of desperate choices,

found family, folk magic and noisy ghosts.

Genevieve Charbonneau talks to ghosts and has a special relationship with rattlesnakes. In her travels, she's

wandered throughout the South, working in a Louisiana circus and as a hootchy kootch dancer in Texas. Now

for the first time in a decade, she's allowed her winding path to bring her to the site of her grandmother's

Arkansas farmhouse, a place hallowed in her memory.

Disguised by years in exile and a name she found on a gravestone, Genevieve intends only to visit briefly

and leave. But a chance meeting with a guilt-ridden young Vietnam veteran draws her into more unexpected

connections. Her hard-won independence inspires an abused woman and her daughters to find their own path

to empowerment, and a hypocritical preacher is brought to a long-deserved reckoning.

With undertones of magical realism and dark humor, here is a powerful story of discovering-and sometimes

rediscovering-one's place in the world, and the unexpected challenges and gifts that present themselves

along the way.