A Southern Family
Author – Gail Godwin
Publisher – William Morrow and Co. Inc.
Copyright – 1987
ISBN – 0-688-06530-9
Hardback – 540 Pages
Gail Godwin was born in Alabama. She is the author of two volumes of short stories and six previous novels including A Mother and Two Daughters and The Finishing School. Godwin now resides in Woodstock, New York.
Godwin’s novel, The Southern Family is storytelling on a grand scale. It has an abundance of revelations of friendship, love, and entanglements of family life. In the middle of the novel, are two violent and mysterious deaths. The family that lives in, A Southern Family, helps the reader understand and know the real Americans. The novel is told in many various voices and what emerges is an unforgettable portrait of a southern family. A family who has made provocation a way of life.
Great page turner. A novel to spend a weekend with and imagine you are sitting under a dogwood tree with a mint julep!
Book Review
Carole Walsh Scott
