![]() ![]() Celia’s fine eye for detail-work (even if no one seems to know it other than herself) is matched by her close observations of the people around her these are rendered fascinatingly through the simple, direct language of a bright, introspective person with little formal education. Celia is a plucky 20-year-old orphan in 1780 Charleston, working as a junior apprentice seamstress in a hoity-toity shop and dreaming of better things (love respect for her extra-spiffy sewing skills, which languish unrecognized while she is tasked on low-level button-reinforcing work and the like and in general “getting her way,” because, as a Southern character of a certain type, she is full unto bursting with “gumption”). ![]() I approached Celia Garth with decidedly modest expectations, and the beginning of the story more or less met them precisely. ![]()
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