Sand and Gravel. Clara JD Stites

      

      Sand and Gravel

      By

      Clara Stites

      LandMarc Company

      Crockett, Texas 75835

      © Copyright © 2013 Clara Stites.

      All rights reserved. This book is protected by copyright. No part of it may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      LandMarc Company

      P.O. Box 1075

      Crockett, TX 75835

      Sand and Gravel is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental. Any errors of fact are solely the author’s.

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      Cover Art by John Powel, Yellow Boat Studio

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      ISBN-13: 978-0-9832-5110-1

      To Bev, for her strength, and to Jessie, for her fire.

      Acknowledgments

      Special thanks to Anne Baker, Andy Burnes, Penny Bragonier, Betsy Campbell, Llewellyn Howland III, Sarah Kelley, Bev, David and Howland King, Nancy Marcus Land, Leslie Lawrence, MataGiri, John Powel, Laura Price, Jessie Schell, Sterling Watson, and the many friends who served as first readers.

      About the Author

      Clara Stites is a reader, writer, editor, sailor, wannabe farmer, sister of a swami, married with grandchildren. Life slips into her writing, writing into her life. Clara grew up in New England and her affection for the land, water, and people shines through her novel which is set in an entirely fictional, yet tantalizingly familiar community. The inspiration for Sand and Gravel came from an old farmhouse that fascinated Clara when she was a child; all the earth around the house had been dug out and carried away by a family-run gravel operation, yet the family still lived in the house. How strange, she thought. From there, the book grew, combining memory and imagination.

      Sand and Gravel is Clara Stites’ first novel. She has also written four historical books for middle readers and several dozen short stories that have appeared in literary magazines. She lives in southeastern Massachusetts with her husband, half a dozen chickens, and four border collies.