Innocent, convent-educated Katherine Pierson makes a bold leap into life when she marries an older man, leading to difficulties with marriage, children, and a loss of self-esteem, difficulties that lead her to grasp at passion. A first novel. Reprint...
Goner follows the lives of four sisters from a progressive household in the Deep South. The narrative begins with their northern mother's arrival in a Louisiana army town as a young newspaper reporter in 1943 and her hasty, unconsidered, marriage to ...