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Karen Dove Barr

Biography

Karen Dove Barr

Karen Dove Barr is a native Georgian and an attorney, with a BA from Mercer and a JD from John Marshall Law School. She is the author of WILD TIMES ON SKIDAWAY ISLAND and RUNNING THROUGH MENOPAUSE. Her essays have appeared in Runners' World, Fitness Magazine, Dog Fancy, Coastal Senior and Savannah Magazine. BURNT POT ISLAND is her first novel. Skidaway Island has been her home since 1989.

Karen Dove Barr

Books by Karen Dove Barr

Burnt Pot Island: A Marsh Hammock in Its Natural State
by Karen Dove Barr - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Catherine Williams earns her living shucking oysters in a filthy, mosquito-infested shed, like all Geechee women in Pin Point, Georgia, in 1904. When the owner of the oyster cannery makes an unwanted sexual advance toward Catherine’s daughter Licia, Catherine is forced to hide Licia with her son Willie on Skidaway Island, the epicenter of fine-liquor smuggling and manufacture of moonshine. She struggles to keep her job and home, both of which depend on pleasing her boss. The mayor entices Licia into sex and rum-running, building her a secret house on Burnt Pot Island, where even voodoo and Christian prayer aren’t enough to keep her safe. Federal agents close in for a raid, forcing Catherine to choose between abandoning everything she has worked for and saving her children.