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Southern Exposure: A Novel

Linda Lightsey Rice

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Description:A lyrical new voice from the South weaves a searing psychological drama around a small town shocked by violence, presenting in this extraordinary first novel a compellingly honest portrait of human lives caught in the crucible of change.Essex, South Carolina, is a small town where people still know one another by first names, and often leave their doors unlocked—until the night an elderly widow is brutally murdered in her bed, hurtling this once calm and complacent community into a harrowing realm of alienation and distrust. At the heart of the tragedy are Stoney McFarland and his wife Anna, who left the urban chaos of Washington for the Essex of Stoney's childhood, hoping to reclaim the sense of connection that first brought them together. But Stoney's obsession with the murder investigation and his efforts to restore the down threaten deeply buried secrets other townspeople are desperate to suppress.Soon the town is fractured by the twin perils of public danger and private exposure. Anna McFarland seeks answers in the moss-draped swam outside Essex, where an eerie mist shrouds voodoo rituals. Harriet Setzler, town matriarch and paragon of Old South propriety, shuts her door tightly to hide her fear of a long-dead ghost. Marian Davis, a Civil Rights activist who has come home to find the mother who abandoned her, simply waits—and discovers that a lie is sometimes more honest than the truth. The story reaches a devastating climax as it becomes clear what some people will do to protect the place they love, to preserve their vision of sanctuary—a revelation that has the power to shatter the past forever.Southern Exposure confronts complex ideas about bigotry, love, and modern society in a lushly atmospheric, masterfully constructed psychological mystery. As powerful and sinuously beautiful as the live oaks that line the low country landscape, Southern Exposure is a striking literary debut—a haunting, vivid novel of passion and deceit in the contemporary South.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Southern Exposure: A Novel. To get started finding Southern Exposure: A Novel, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: A lyrical new voice from the South weaves a searing psychological drama around a small town shocked by violence, presenting in this extraordinary first novel a compellingly honest portrait of human lives caught in the crucible of change.Essex, South Carolina, is a small town where people still know one another by first names, and often leave their doors unlocked—until the night an elderly widow is brutally murdered in her bed, hurtling this once calm and complacent community into a harrowing realm of alienation and distrust. At the heart of the tragedy are Stoney McFarland and his wife Anna, who left the urban chaos of Washington for the Essex of Stoney's childhood, hoping to reclaim the sense of connection that first brought them together. But Stoney's obsession with the murder investigation and his efforts to restore the down threaten deeply buried secrets other townspeople are desperate to suppress.Soon the town is fractured by the twin perils of public danger and private exposure. Anna McFarland seeks answers in the moss-draped swam outside Essex, where an eerie mist shrouds voodoo rituals. Harriet Setzler, town matriarch and paragon of Old South propriety, shuts her door tightly to hide her fear of a long-dead ghost. Marian Davis, a Civil Rights activist who has come home to find the mother who abandoned her, simply waits—and discovers that a lie is sometimes more honest than the truth. The story reaches a devastating climax as it becomes clear what some people will do to protect the place they love, to preserve their vision of sanctuary—a revelation that has the power to shatter the past forever.Southern Exposure confronts complex ideas about bigotry, love, and modern society in a lushly atmospheric, masterfully constructed psychological mystery. As powerful and sinuously beautiful as the live oaks that line the low country landscape, Southern Exposure is a striking literary debut—a haunting, vivid novel of passion and deceit in the contemporary South.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Southern Exposure: A Novel. To get started finding Southern Exposure: A Novel, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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