Family Linen
Lee Smith
Penguin Publishing Group
"Brilliant, haunting, dark, joyous, remarkably compelling...immensely difficult to put down...a master storyteller."<br>THE VILLAGE VOICE<br>A childhood memory re-experienced, a funeral that brings about a family reunion, and the excavation of a swimming pool on the site of an old well, uncover family secrets and air the dirty linen in this behind-the-scenes look at life and family, memory and forgetfulness, anger and forgiveness in a small Southern town.<br>"Falls in line with the best of classical Southern fiction...but Ms. Smith's vision is her own and places her among the best of contemporary Southern writers."<br>THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION</br></br></br></br>