'Eleanor Henderson is in possession of an enormous talent' Ann Patchett 'A superb novel whose roots can be traced to Harper Lee and Carson McCullers' Oprah Magazine
An intimate family drama extends to the sweep of the American epic fiction of Harper Lee, Toni Morrison and William Faulkner in this return from the author of "Ten Thousand Saints". A white sharecropper's daughter in thirties Georgia gives birth to two babies, one light-skinned and one dark, setting in motion a destabilising series of confrontations.
