Bücher der Reihe Harvest American Writing

The long-awaited and highly praised second novel by the author of Stones for Ibarra. The American characters here find themselves waiting, hoping, and living in rural Mexico-a land with the power to enchant, repulse, captivate, and change all who pass through it. Named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly and a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times.

The bestselling tale-powerful, compassionate, humorous-of the three Lovejoy sisters reunited in their hometown of Mulberry, Georgia, on the occasion of their mother's death. As the emotionally scarred Lovejoys prepare for their mother's funeral, the spirit of the selfish and manipulative Mudear hovers above them, complaining about her daughters' ?ugly ways? in death as she did in life.

?Compassionate understanding and humor illuminate this understated yet dazzling work? (Publishers Weekly)-a compelling parable in which two sisters find, among the neglected virtues of the past, a sustenance to carry them into the future. ?A fine, unnerving little hermeneutic of love? (Village Voice).

As she struggles to move from antagonism to common ground with Miss Xenobia Kezee, her sick, elderly, cantankerous mother-in-law, Paula Johnson confronts her own mother's death and her husband's detachment from the emotional life of his family.