The world of Magnolia Le Guin, like that of countless farm women, was defined by and confined to home and family. Born in 1869 into the rural, white, agrarian society of Georgia's central piedmont,... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Hilarious, bizarre and heartbreaking by turns, this is the story of a young wannabe writer growing up with one foot in the Mennonite community and the other in the "godless world of the English". New Yorker writer Edith Iglauer has called the novel "simply a masterpiece". Most recently it's been nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Award by B.C. Book Prizes.
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