Delta Wedding
Author: Eudora Welty
It is 1923; little motherless Laura McRaven travels from Jackson, Mississippi, on a train named the Yellow Dog. She is returning to Shellmound, the family plantation in the heart of the delta, where she will gather with relatives for the marriage of Dabney, the prettiest of the Fairchild girls…..Read More
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