But she also discovers that there's more to Mercy Hill than she thought: beauty, in the people and places she's known all her life, and secrets, sometimes where they're least expected.Told in vignettes and set in 1970s Appalachia, To Come and Go Like Magic is a heartwarming and hopeful debut novel about family, friendship, and the meaning of home.From the Hardcover edition.
As the three spend time together, Chili learns about the jungles and deserts and cities of the world.
Why she's come back to her childhood home after all this time is a mystery, but Chili and Willie are eager to befriend her despite the rumors. Everyone knows Miss Matlock has traveled around the globe. Momma says Mercy Hill, Kentucky, is her "true home," but Chili longs to see the world-to have the freedom to leave and to explore.So when Miss Matlock is brought in as the 7th grade substitute teacher, Chili and her classmate Willie Bright are thrilled. Though women were not allowed on ship, she became the first woman to circumnavigate the globe. Twelve-year-old Chili Sue Mahoney has never been outside of her small Appalachian town. She disguised herself as a man in order to board the ship of French navy admiral and explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville on his voyage of circumnavigation of the globe.
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