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Remaining with Aunt Mattie and uncle Sheriff Cade in the North Carolina mountains, nine-year-old June becomes "Mattie's Female" when Cade is killed at the house of her closest friend, PeeDee. In reviews deeply rooted in 1940s Appalachia, June chronicles the years between achieving the irrepressible PeeDee and losing her. She struggles to understand her mother's indifference, her father's divided love, her grandmother's rapid fatality, and her grandfather's being institutionalized. 3 years later, PeeDee, operating the rails west, brings your final gift and the truth about Cade's murder. Nowadays forever vanished, June survives and triumphs through the sophistication of family and friendship.