Olive Ann Burns’ Cold Sassy Tree captures the cross-currents of small town Southern life! Set in the fictional town of Cold Sassy, Georgia in 1906, the story revolves around E. Rucker Blakeslee, widower and owner of the town’s general store and his marriage to a very young milliner, Miss Love. Told through the eyes of Will Tweedy, Rucker’s grandson, this is a timeless, funny, resplendent novel  about a romance that rocks an entire town, a boy’s passage through the momentous year of  change from childhood to adolescence  and how people lived and died in a small Southern town at the turn of the century.