{"id":392,"date":"2023-01-13T14:45:51","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T14:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carladamron.com\/?page_id=392"},"modified":"2023-01-17T18:30:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T18:30:03","slug":"the-stone-necklace","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/staging.carladamron.com\/stg\/the-stone-necklace","title":{"rendered":"The Stone Necklace"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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A deftly written, moving novel about picking up the pieces after great loss.<\/p><\/blockquote>

\u2014Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation<\/em>, named one of “The 10 Best Books of 2014” by\u00a0The New York Times Book Review<\/em><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Clawing chest pains and a fiery car crash take one life and change the destiny of four others.\u00a0The Stone Necklace<\/span>\u00a0braids together the stories of a grieving widow, a struggling nurse, a young mother, and a troubled homeless man, reminding us of the empowering and surprising ways our lives touch one another and how, together, we can recover from even the greatest of losses.

Carla Damron weaves the stories of four people in Columbia, South Carolina, whose seemingly disparate existences intersect through tragedies realized and tragedies averted. Lena Hastings survived breast cancer and marital infidelity but now faces an uncertain future and crises with her teenaged daughter Becca without the support of the one person she has always counted on. Intensive care nurse Sandy Albright, newly released from drug rehab, confronts temptations from her past and false accusations threatening her career, leaving her to wonder if a drug-free life is really living. Tonya Ladson, a mother whose child is injured in the wreck, must decide if her domineering husband is right and a lawsuit will solve their financial problems. Joe Booker, a homeless man who sleeps in a graveyard, loses his gentle benefactor and must either succumb to the real and imagined evils of his world or find the heretofore-untapped courage to care for himself and for others as a stranger once cared for him. Weighted down by their respective pasts, the characters must make life-altering choices that reverberate into the fates of the others, ultimately bringing them together in unexpected but healing acts of compassion, forgiveness, and redemption.

The Stone Necklace includes a foreword from former nurse turned\u00a0New York Times<\/span>\u00a0best-selling novelist Patti Callahan Henry.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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In The Stone Necklace, Carla Damron takes full ownership of Columbia, South Carolina, in a way no writer ever has, capturing the flawed soul of the historic capital city as the weight of its past still hangs albatross-like on the throat of the present. Damron’s masterful portrayal of misery giving way to empathy leads us toward a glimmering hope of redemption for families and a community on the cusp of bold rebirth. This a novelist to be read again and again.<\/p><\/blockquote>

\u2013Pat Conroy, author of The Water is Wide<\/em>, The Lords of Discipline<\/em>, The Prince of Tides<\/em> and The Great Santini<\/em><\/span><\/p>

With every well-chosen word and every beautifully achieved character, Carla Damron proves herself to be an accomplished and hopeful observer of our fragile human condition, one with a deep love of her home city and a reverence for the prospects of its citizens to become better versions of themselves.\u00a0The Stone Necklace<\/span>\u00a0is a celebration of the transformative power of shared experiences and of the connections that bind us as family and friends, as communities and cities, and ultimately as one humanity.<\/p><\/blockquote>

\u2013Mary Alice Monroe,\u00a0New York Times<\/em> bestselling author<\/span><\/p>

The Stone Necklace\u00a0<\/span>is a novel crafted out of the raw materials of Columbia itself, much like the necklace that comes to serve as a vibrant symbol for the braiding together of diverse, disparate lives in the narrative. Eudora Welty said that one place understood helps us understand all places better. That’s what Carla Damron has achieved in her portrait of Columbia: a nuanced understanding of one place that helps us to understand all others\u2015and to understand ourselves.<\/p><\/blockquote>

\u2013Ron Rash,\u00a0New York Times<\/em> bestselling author of Serena<\/em> and Above the Waterfall<\/em><\/span><\/p>

Carla Damron delves deeply and wholly into the souls of her story’s characters . . . each representative in her or his way of our larger, shared experiences, as she shows us with wisdom and grace that there are no absolutes in matters of the heart.<\/p><\/blockquote>

\u2013Patti Callahan Henry,\u00a0New York Times<\/em> bestselling author of sixteen novels<\/span><\/p>

Carla Damron is a wise and sensitive storyteller, attuned to the social fabric that makes up community. In The Stone Necklace, she deftly sees into the hearts of a clutch of different characters, all linked by the same sudden tragedy, all destined to transform each other’s’ lives. This is a symphonic novel of human noise and nature, and I fully expect it to garner Damron the audience she deserves.<\/p><\/blockquote>

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A deftly written, moving novel about picking up the pieces after great loss. \u2014Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation, named one of “The 10 Best Books of 2014” by\u00a0The New York Times Book Review Amazon Barnes & Noble Bookshop …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-392","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.carladamron.com\/stg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.carladamron.com\/stg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.carladamron.com\/stg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.carladamron.com\/stg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.carladamron.com\/stg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/staging.carladamron.com\/stg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508,"href":"https:\/\/staging.carladamron.com\/stg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/392\/revisions\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.carladamron.com\/stg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}