Rhoda Manning is home for the summer in Dunleith, Alabama. In an age of conformity and innocence, the 19-year-old is tired of conventional virtue. Resisting her easy life, she yearns for meaning and beauty, profundity and mystery. Impulsive and adventurous, she attends a midnight meeting of the Klan, and then repelled, hurls herself into the civil rights movement.
Half-conscious of her unmet needs and desires, she vacillates between the world of her family and that of her dreams, flirting with danger, pressing against the edge -- with disturbing and tragic consequences.
"To say that Ellen Gilchrist can write is to say that Placido Domingo can sing. All you need to do is listen." (The Washington Post)
Genre: Literary Fiction
Half-conscious of her unmet needs and desires, she vacillates between the world of her family and that of her dreams, flirting with danger, pressing against the edge -- with disturbing and tragic consequences.
"To say that Ellen Gilchrist can write is to say that Placido Domingo can sing. All you need to do is listen." (The Washington Post)
Genre: Literary Fiction
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