The Good Dream is really a lovely book about love and grief and, yes, redemption. But the boy drags secrets along with him, secrets someone in town would rather keep buried. This unexpectedly draws the consternation and even ire of other people in her little town, but she pushes on ahead, feeling a deep purpose in having the boy in her life. Ivorie can’t help but feel drawn to this poor little soul who seems to be living a very difficult life, and one day she takes him in and starts caring for him herself. Her older brother says that everyone in town now has some of her blackberry jam.īut in a place where few things change but the weather, Ivorie is faced with some surprises: she starts to fall for a widower in town who begins calling on her, and a dirty little boy starts stealing food from her garden.
Her parents have died, her mother fairly recently, and she pretty much spins around her house and garden day in and day out just trying to stay busy. Being single and in her early 30s, that pretty much means she’s now a spinster. Ivorie Walker lives in a time and place in which she is consigned to certain expectations: it’s 1950, and she lives in small-town Tennessee.
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