The Legacy of Eden
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For generations, Aurelia was the crowning glory of more than three thousand acres of Iowa farmland and golden cornfields. The estate was a monument to matriarch Lavinia Hathaway's dream to elevate the family name—no matter what relative or stranger she had to destroy in the process. It was a desperation that wrought the downfall of the Hathaways—and the once-prosperous farm.
Now the last inhabitant of the decaying old home has died—alone. None of the surviving members of the Hathaway family want anything to do with the farm, the land or the memories.
Especially Meredith Pincetti. Now living in New York City, for seventeen years Lavinia's youngest grandchild has tried to forget everything about her family and her past. But with the receipt of a pleading letter, Meredith is again thrust into conflict with the legacy that destroyed her family's once-great name.
Back at Aurelia, Meredith must confront the rise and fall of the Hathaway family...and her own part in their mottled history.
Now the last inhabitant of the decaying old home has died—alone. None of the surviving members of the Hathaway family want anything to do with the farm, the land or the memories.
Especially Meredith Pincetti. Now living in New York City, for seventeen years Lavinia's youngest grandchild has tried to forget everything about her family and her past. But with the receipt of a pleading letter, Meredith is again thrust into conflict with the legacy that destroyed her family's once-great name.
Back at Aurelia, Meredith must confront the rise and fall of the Hathaway family...and her own part in their mottled history.
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Now the last inhabitant of the decaying old home has died—alone. None of the surviving members of the Hathaway family want anything to do with the farm, the land or the memories.
Especially Meredith Pincetti. Now living in New York City, for seventeen years Lavinia's youngest grandchild has tried to forget everything about her family and her past. But with the receipt of a pleading letter, Meredith is again thrust into conflict with the legacy that destroyed her family's once-great name.
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Davy’s melodramatic debut traces the rise and fall of Aurelia, an Iowa farm where the Hathaway family enjoyed financial prosperity and suffered personal ruin. Meredith Pincetti, née Hathaway, returns to Aurelia long after it’s gone fallow (to exorcise her family’s ghosts) and recounts the legacy of her spiteful grandmother Lavinia, who engineered the farm’s spectacular ascension and the family’s explosive disunion. “Rotten seeds make diseased trees,” Lavinia once said, describing a fate she set in motion with her scandalous marriage to Cal Senior. Lavinia pledges her loyalty to Aurelia by ritually spilling her blood on its soil, and has her children and grandchildren do the same, yet her cold-blooded mind games lead them to desecrate the land with stunning acts of malice, depravity, and destruction. Rage drives Cal Senior, his son, and his grandson to drunken violence, while Lavinia, her stepdaughter, and her granddaughters channel their anger into emotional treachery. Despite the novel’s clumsy expositions, Davy’s characters are lively and engaging. However, given that the Hathaway men’s brutality is pardoned, while the women’s emotional transgressions can’t be forgiven, the novel’s moral universe proves troubling. Agent: Davey Literary & Media.
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Now the last inhabitant of the decaying old home has died—alone. None of the surviving members of the Hathaway family want anything to do with the farm, the land or the memories.
Especially Meredith Pincetti. Now living in New York City, for seventeen years Lavinia's youngest grandchild has tried to forget everything about her family and her past. But with the receipt of a pleading letter, Meredith is again thrust into conflict with the legacy that destroyed her family's once-great name.
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