cold sassy tree

. The novel Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns is a story from a 14 year-old boy's point of view in 1906 in the south Georgia town of Cold Sassy. The book begins with Grandpa Blakeslee announcing to his daughters, Mary Willis and Loma, that he is getting married to Miss Love Simpson. It has only been 3 weeks since his wife, Miss Mattie Lou, passed away. A motif running throughout the book is that Miss Mattie Lou …

…Will saying how he still has part of that root, in a box, along with his journal, tobacco tags, the write-up in the Atlanta paper when he got run over by the train, a photograph of him, Miss Love, and Grandpa in the Pierce, his Ag college Diploma from the University, and the Buckeye that Lightfoot gave him. On his 15th birthday, Lightfoot told Will she was going to marry Hosie Roach, who he hated.