Tennyson

TENNYSON is atmospheric and moody as a dream, yet full of historical fact, conscience, and humor. Even the houses come to life in this wonderful third novel by a talented writer.

Eleven-year-old Tennyson Fontaine and her younger sister Hattie are sent to live at Aigredoux, an old plantation, after their mother deserts the family during the Depression. While at Aigredoux, Tennyson has dreams of what the old plantation was like before the war.

In 1932, the Depression weighs heavily across the entire country. But for 11-year-old Tennyson Fontaine and her eight-year-old sister, Hattie, life goes on as normal in their simple shack home near the banks of the Mississippi.