This is a small novel by Bobbie Ann Mason, for me most famous for her short story collection Shiloh. That book contains a tremendously good title story, and several other very good stories. Among those stories are a handful about a woman named Nancy Culpepper who is a kind of stand-in figure for Mason in many of her stories. Like plenty of authors before her she uses this figure to explore different elements of her own life and allows the intimacy and continuity of the character […]