Finding the Chain (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Mary Hood
- First Published: 1986
- Type of Plot: Wit and humor
- Time of Work: The 1980's
- Setting: Georgia
- Principal Characters: Ben Stevenson, Cliffie Stevenson, Drew, Mary J, Jondi
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, Memory, Dogs, South or Southerners, 1980’s, Accidents, Mountain life, Holidays, Fishing or fishermen, Joy or sorrow, Log cabins or houses, Thanksgiving Day
- Locales: Georgia
The Story
Ben and Cliffie Stevenson and their children live on the Georgia coast, in Ben's native Glynn County, where he is a fisherman. Cliffie hails from the north Georgia mountains and yearns for the farm where she grew up. Drew is Cliffie's son by a previous marriage, and although Ben has legally adopted him, Drew has achieved only an uneasy truce with his stepfather. When the youngest child, Jondi, was born, Ben promised Cliffie he would take them all to the mountains to visit her now empty birthplace at Wildrose.
The story opens on Thanksgiving Day, the morning...
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