Goodreads asked Sarah C. Patten:

What are you currently working on?

Sarah C. Patten I am rounding the bend on my second novel. The effects of the pandemic threw many hurdles in the way of steady progress, but I am making my way. It is, oddly enough, about a time when the human spirit prevailed over sickness, as the story goes… At the turn of the 19th century, Sweet P is nearly twenty and lives in a broken down farmhouse in a small town in Tennessee with her grandfather and her catatonically depressed mother. Her life changes forever when Ordelia, an enchanting, blind traveling sales-woman comes to live with them. Ordelia works as a medicine show-woman and sells her Water of Life tonic, door to door, town to town. When Ordelia and Sweet P’s grandfather fall deeply in love, Sweet P joins them on the road and transforms from farm girl to bejeweled hustler, traveling throughout the country with Ordelia’s band of outcast performers. Ordelia takes Sweet P under her wing and teaches her about life’s grand show—the journey of suffering, sickness, secrets, promises, and love, life’s greatest balm.

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