On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon
Author: Kaye Gibbons
Lush in detail and vibrating with life of its characters, this powerful new novel invites us to experience a long-gone South through the life of a fascinating woman.Emma Garnet, the heroine of Kaye Gibbons’s sixth novel, takes the reader on a Southern journey through place and time from 1842 to 1900. We see her first as a plantation owner’s daughter, pampered by servants y….Read More
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