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Tifton, GA is as Southern as small towns come. It's the 1950s, and Little Judy Ireland is growing up in this town of colorful rural characters. We meet dancing and singing twins, a misunderstood and scorned dog breeder, a budding football star with promise of a great career, a girl who lives below a jail, and of course, the studious, observant Little Judy Ireland. We see through her eyes this town come to life, her budding years forming a picture of what it is to be from the South like this, not understanding its social misgivings and forming friendships and familial bonds that last well into her adult years. We see first kisses, first adventures, and the family and friends that make a life worth living. We pick through the bones of this buried past and find meaning and truth that still resonates today.

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""This is a wonderfully enjoyable read. I think many of us might have driven through Tifton, stopped for lunch, and hurried on, thinking we'd seen the place. Judith Ireland shows us different. Her details are so particular, her nuances so layered, her observations so flavorful, she draws me into experiencing this little '50s town in Georgia as more than just a town, it's a world. For me, as I read these stories, Tifton begins to feel familiar: I feel like I know this place. It reminds me of my own hometown growing up, my own childhood and teenage years-which is curious, because my hometown and childhood were nothing like Ireland's. The emotions are my own but the memories evoking them are hers: it's almost as if I'm ""remembering"" her life as my own. That's what the best memoirs do: they let us experience what the world would be like if we were someone else; and that's what Judith Ireland achieves in Picking Over the Bones."" -Tamim Ansary, author of West of Kabul, East of New York

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Judith Ireland lives in northern California with her husband, Jerry, and little Maltese, Charlie. Her story is in these pages.

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