Set in New York in 2001, Abbott's debut novel invites us into the lives of good people grappling with the hard choices and the sacrifices they must make to find love. In the manner of a contemporary Edith Wharton, Shirley Abbott exposes the inner liv...
A woman's memoir of her Arkansas childhood reflects southern history, sociology, and mythology as it chronicles her volatile relationship with her father, a bookie at an illegal gambling house. Reprint. 12,500 first printing....