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Article: Book describes life on Big Ugly Creek
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
- Article date:
- May 6, 2007
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For the Sunday Gazette-Mail In Sarahs Girls: A Chronicle of Big
Ugly Creek, West Virginia author Lenore McComas Coberly creates a
fictionalized account of her mothers family story. Inspired in part
by a journal written by her Aunt Pearl, Sarahs Girls follows the
lives of four sisters, Madge, Pearl, Ida and Edna, who were raised by
their Aunt Lena after their mothers untimely death in the early years
of the 20th century. Coberly herself was born in Lincoln County in
1925 and lived there until her marriage in 1946. In her novel,
Coberly imagines scenes from the lives of her mother and three aunts
during the first five decades of the century. Coberlys strength lies
in chronicling the way of ...