Join host Tom Riddell as he welcomes author Teri Brown to The Writers Lounge. Sit back and relax as Teri discusses what it's like to be a writer and she will also talk to us about her book: Daughters of Green Mountain Gap.

The late 1800s were a difficult time to survive in America. The wilderness was home to many and those who were fortunate to find themselves living in a small town or city still had to contend with a life of adversity and an abundant amount of uncertainty that surrounded them. Healthcare, for many, topped the list of what was needed to survive in a world of diseases like smallpox, measles, yellow fever or more commonly contracted illnesses like the flu, which ended up killing thousands. These illnesses could wipe out an entire village or town in a matter of days.

Maggie McCoury, a generational healer woman, known as a granny woman, learned much of what she knows about the healing power of roots and herbs from a local Cherokee tribe, and she applies her knowledge to help her loved ones and the people who live around her. Her daughter Carrie Ann, on the other hand, disagrees strongly with her mother and becomes a nurse and promotes the use of medicines for which her university training has taught her. Carrie Ann's animosity toward her mother grows as she teams up with a doctor in town, in an attempt to bring sanity back to the community who didn't have much of a choice than to believe in the powers of "mountain magic".

Daughters of Green Mountain Gap touches on the family dynamics of three generations of women living in North Carolina at the turn of the century.

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