Description: When new teacher Miss Grace Spivey arrives in Threestep, Georgia, the town is turned upside down. The real trouble begins when she decides to revive the annual town festival as an exotic Baghdad Bazaar.
Brief description:
Mary Helen Stefaniak is the prizewinning author of The Turk and My Mother and Self Storage and Other Stories. She lives in Omaha and Iowa City.
Review Quotes:
"Wonderfully engaging...a great tribute to the power of education, strong women, and the fine art of storytelling...An intricate, dazzling pattern of history and imagination and truth."
-- "Jill McCorkle, author of Going Away Shoes"