Recipient of the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction Lauded for her â€œastute and engrossingâ€ (People) writing style imbued with â€œoriginality galoreâ€

Last Ride to Graceland

Recipient of the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction

Lauded for her â€œastute and engrossingâ€ (People) writing style imbued with â€œoriginality galoreâ€ (RT Book Reviews), Kim Wright channels the best of Jennifer Weiner and Sarah Pekkanen in this delightful novel of self-discovery on the open road as one woman sets out for Graceland hoping to answer the question: Is Elvis Presley her father?

Blues musician Cory Ainsworth is barely scraping by after her motherâ€™s death when she discovers a priceless piece of rock â€˜nâ€™ roll memorabilia hidden away in a shed out back of the familyâ€™s coastal South Carolina home: Elvis Presleyâ€™s Stutz Blackhawk, its interior a time capsule of the singerâ€™s last day on earth.

A backup singer for the King, Coryâ€™s mother Honey was at Graceland the day Elvis died. She quickly returned home to Beaufort and married her high school sweetheart. Yearning to uncover the secrets of her motherâ€™s pastâ€”and possibly her own identityâ€”Cory decides to drive the car back to Memphis and turn it over to Elvisâ€™s estate, retracing the exact route her mother took thirty-seven years earlier. As she winds her way through the sprawling deep south with its quaint towns and long stretches of open road, the burning question in Coryâ€™s mindâ€”who is my father?â€”takes a backseat to the truth she learns about her complicated mother, the minister's daughter who spent a lifetime struggling to conceal the consequences of a single year of rebellion.

Country	USA
Author	Kim Wright
Binding	Paperback
EAN	9781501100789
ISBN	1501100785
Label	Gallery Books
Manufacturer	Gallery Books
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	352
PublicationDate	2016-05-24
Publisher	Gallery Books
ReleaseDate	2016-05-24
Studio	Gallery Books

Last Ride to Graceland

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