From Publishers Weekly
Edgerton expertly balances 20 minor and major characters in this highly entertaining novel about a dispute over an inheritance in a North Carolina town.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
The Bales-McCord family of North Carolina are distantly related to the Copeland family of Edgerton's The Floatplane Notebooks ( LJ 10/1/88). Their story is similar, too, with strained relationships and cemetery gatherings. The humor here is wry and more restrained than in Walking Across Egypt ( LJ 3/15/87), the tone more somber. Faison and Tate were deserted by their mother when Tate was just a baby, and father Glenn remarried and produced Faye. Now Faye's mother and Glenn hover near death, and their offspring worry about who will die first and who will inherit the family acreage. Meanwhile, Uncle Grove (brother to Glenn's first wife) is heading home to die, and Faison and his ex-wife are fighting over what goes on her son Junior's gravestone. Complicated? Yes, and often morbid, but Edgerton is the new master of Southern family tales.
- Ann H. Fisher, Radford P.L., Va.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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