A teenage girl holds her struggling family together on a tobacco farm after her mother's death, confronting secrets and hardship in 1980s South Carolina.
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A teenage girl holds her struggling family together on a tobacco farm after her mother's death, confronting secrets and hardship in 1980s South Carolina.
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2022 Christy Award Finalist! This night not only marked the end to the drought, but also the end to the long-held secret we'd kept hidden under the magnolias. Magnolia, South Carolina, 1980 Austin Foster is barely a teenager when her mama dies giving birth to twins, leaving her to pick up the pieces while holding her six siblings together and doing her best to stop her daddy from retreating into his personal darkness. Scratching out a living on the family's tobacco farm is as tough as it gets. W...
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Romance & sex
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Teen crush and budding romance with a local boy; emotional focus rather than physical
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Religious content
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Uplifting themes of truth, healing, and faith implied in tone
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Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Family poverty, maternal death, father's withdrawal, hidden hardships, and emotional toll on children
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