Dimensions
126 x 198 x 16mm
Like America in the mid-nineteenth century, Emma Garnet Tate Lowell is at war with herself. Born to privilege on a grand plantation she grows increasingly aware that her family's prosperity is inextricably linked to slavery. As she looks back on her troubled childhood, her hostile relationship with her bumptious self-made father Samuel P. Tate, her attempt to create the ideal happy home through marriage, and the war that destroyed the rhythm of all their days, so she begins the long journey towards her own reconstruction.
'If there is a writer worthy to be nominated the literary heir of Eudora Welty, Gibbons is that writer.'
Irish Times
