A Cure for Dreams
Author: Kaye Gibbons
In her novels Ellen Foster and A Virtuous Woman, Kaye Gibbons compiled what one critic has called “a fictional oral history of female wishes [and] hopes.” That tradition continues in A Cure for Dreams, a richly woven story that traces the bonds between four generations of Southern women through stories passed from mother to daughter to granddaughter. Gibbons shows us shrew….Read More
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