Category:
Literary Fiction
Regular worth:
$11.99
Deal worth:
$1.99
Deal begins:
September 14, 2022
Deal ends:
September 14, 2022
Generations of Southern ladies take care of arduous instances and heartless males on this “joyous” novel by the New York Times–bestselling creator of Ellen Foster (The Washington Post Book World).
In “a witty and explosive story about men and women, bad girls and good girls, love and laundry,” Kaye Gibbons paints a portrait of shrewd, resourceful ladies prevailing by means of hardships and discovering surprising pleasures alongside the best way: gossip, playing, and the quiet satisfaction of realizing greater than they’re imagined to (The Houston Post). In A Cure for Dreams, the acclaimed creator “once again demonstrates her extraordinary talent . . . Utterly engaging and convincing” (The Boston Globe).
“This episodic novel, Gibbons’s third, is set during the Depression in back-country Virginia and Kentucky. In 19 vignettes, Betty Davies Randolph reveals her childhood and her mother’s life along Milk Farm Road. Gibbons, winner of several literary awards for her first novel Ellen Foster, has captured magnificently the dailiness and sense of community of rural life—from midwives and WPA ballads to suicides and men gone wild. Southern, and full of the folk wisdom of generations, Gibbons’s voice reveals life’s truths.” —Library Journal
“Years from now, [these] women’s clear, strong words will still be resonating in my mind.” —Anne Tyler, Chicago Tribune
“What a good ear Kaye Gibbons has, and what a good heart. A Cure for Dreams takes the reader down the back roads, and then points out what incredible lives are lived in those ordinary places.” —The Washington Post Book World
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