Part coming-of-age story and part slice of life, this remarkable novel explores the issues of abortion, illegitimacy, adultery, and skin color.
Rural Virginia, 1948. Belly Anderson is now in the autumn of her life. She cannot help but remini...
A cry in the night awakens ten-year-old Amy Beale and alerts her to the difficulties in her parents' marriage.Earlier that steamy evening in July 1940, her mother, Arleatha, witnessed yet another of her husband's infidelities at one of his notorious ...
Through the reminiscences of Kate Hamilton, an African American woman living in rural Furlong County, Virginia, The Grass Widow reveals the effects of deceit and adultery on the marriage of a young, impressionable girl.It is August, 1988, and on her ...