Last Ride to Graceland e-bog

Recipient of the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction Lauded for her ';astute and engrossing' (People) writing style imbued with ';originality galore' (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 mothers death when she discovers a priceless piece of rock n roll memorabilia hidden away in a shed out back of the familys coastal South Carolina home: Elvis Presleys Stutz Blackhawk, its interior a time capsule of the singers last day on earth. A backup singer for the King, Corys 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 mothers pastand possibly her own identityCory decides to drive the car back to Memphis and turn it over to Elviss 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 Corys mindwho is my father?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.