“Exquisitely beautiful… The novel grips the reader from its first page and relentlessly drives us to its conclusion.” — William Ferris, author of An atmospheric debut novel about growing up in the changing South in 1960s Mississippi in the tradition of Sue Monk Kidd’s and Kathryn Stockett’s . In the words of Jill McCorkle ( ), “Minrose Gwin is an extremely gifted writer and is a brilliant and compelling novel.”