![]() ![]() And I can say this, because I loved her best of all."" Roseanna McCoy, ""so purty that just being next to her is better than a piece of rock candy,"" ran off with Johnse Hatfield and ignited the tinder box of residual hatred still smoldering from ""The War Amongst Us"" (the Civil War). ![]() ![]() This colorful novel, an addition to the Great Episodes series, begins in 1889, when Fanny is 16, at a hanging, and flashes back to 1880 to describe the evolution of the quarrel Fanny claims would never have started ""if not for my sister Roseanna. Fanny McCoy, the protagonist and narrator of Rinaldi's (A Break with Charity An Acquaintance with Darkness) tautly plotted historical novel about the infamous feuding families effectively portrays the clans' divided loyalties and cycle of violence. ![]()
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