Finalist: William Faulkner/William Wisdom Competition. Finalist: Tuscany Prize for Fiction."The Distance Between High and Low" is a Southern Gothic novel about the consequences for two young people who set out to learn the identity of their father. Teenaged twins, Lizzie and Peck live in the house of their eccentric, widowed grandmother Pearl--a house of history and secrets-- along with their unstable, drug-addicted, artist mother, Lila, and Izear,...