01017c  ua2200145   450000100180000000800410001802000150005910000200007424500200009426000360011430000110015050000120016152006810017300500170085400000000000041696110103 1991    -us           000   eng    a06710381842 aLott B.q(Bret)10aJewel:bA Novel  aNew York:bPocket Books,c1991.  a360 p.10an/29090  aIn the backwoods of Mississippi, a land of honeysucle and grapevine, Jewel and her husband, Leston, are truly blessed; they have five fine children. When Brenda Kay is born in 1943, Jewel gives thanks for a healthy baby, last-born and most welcome. JEWEL is the story of how quickly a life can change; how, like lightning, an unforeseen event can set us on a course without reason or compass. In this story of a woman`s devotion to the child who is both her burden and God`s singular way of smiling on her, Bret Lott has created a motherdaughter relationship of matchless intensity and beauty, and one of the finest, most indomitable heroines in contemporary American fiction.20260805123650.0