Imagine your grandmother just died, and three weeks later, your widowed grandfather announces he is planning to get married again to a woman almost half his age! This is exactly what sets off the fictional novel Cold Sassy Tree written by Olive Ann Burns. Told in the eyes of southern town boy, Will Tweedy, and set in the summer of 1906, the charming story, Cold Sassy Tree, involves a family's struggle with life, death, realization, acceptance, …showed first 75 words of 779 total…

…showed last 75 words of 779 total…model by teaching lifelong lessons to a grandson he loved dearly. By the end of the story, Will had grown not just physically, but mentally he had come of age. Provided with the lessons of life and love from his grandfather, he had become a man. Reflected in him was his grandfather's spirit, which would forever remind Will of the great man he was, and also help Will pass on these lessons to future generations.