The Weedkiller's Daughter

Name: The Weedkiller's Daughter
Author: Harriette Arnow

About the author

Harriette Arnow wrote The Dollmaker, one of the most powerful American novels about the uprooting of Appalachian culture by wartime industrialization. Gertie Nevels is one of the most fully realized characters in American fiction.

More by Harriette Arnow

Mountain PathNovel about woman's struggle to find place in rural Appalachian mountain community
Hunter's HornNovel following lives of Kentucky family hunting in the wilderness across seasons
The DollmakerNovel about Appalachian woman displaced to Detroit factory town during World War II
Seedtime on the CumberlandHistorical account of settlement and culture on Cumberland River in Kentucky