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When the body of her mother, a suicide nineteen years earlier, is mysteriously exhumed, Ginger Mason returns to her small Georgia hometown from her life as an archaeologist in Italy and is reunited with her troubled, reclusive brother J. J., as dark secrets and startling truths about their family and their town begin to surface. A first novel. 75,000 first printing.
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"This remains a solid read, sure to please readers who enjoy Southern fiction."
"-Library Journal"
"An assured fiction debut...Like Richard Russo's novel "Empire Falls," it smartly dissects and dynamics of small-town relationships and the interplay between prominent families and the less powerful over several generations...carefully constructed...you'll fall for "Swan."
"-USA Today "
"Fueled by irresistable, page-turning questions."
-"San Francisco Chronicle"
"A painstaking study of a small Southern town and its people...combining [Mayes's] talent for vivid scene-setting that [she] showed in "Tuscan Sun" with deft plotting and solid character development."
"-St. Louis Post-Dispatch"
"Loaded with finely-drawn minor characters and the alluring atmosphere of the American South, "Swan" is a well-paced...entertainment."
"-New York Times Book Review"
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"-Library Journal"
"An assured fiction debut...Like Richard Russo's novel "Empire Falls," it smartly dissects and dynamics of small-town relationships and the interplay between prominent families and the less powerful over several generations...carefully constructed...you'll fall for "Swan."
"-USA Today "
"Fueled by irresistable, page-turning questions."
-"San Francisco Chronicle"
"A painstaking study of a small Southern town and its people...combining [Mayes's] talent for vivid scene-setting that [she] showed in "Tuscan Sun" with deft plotting and solid character development."
"-St. Louis Post-Dispatch"
"Loaded with finely-drawn minor characters and the alluring atmosphere of the American South, "Swan" is a well-paced...entertainment."
"-New York Times Book Review"
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The Masons are a prominent but now fragmented family who have lived for generations in Swan, an Edenic, hidebound small town in Georgia. As Swan opens, a bizarre crime pulls Ginger Mason home from her life as an archeologist in Italy: the body of her mother, Catherine, a suicide nineteen years earlier, has been mysteriously exhumed. Reunited on new terms with her troubled, isolated brother J.J., who has never ventured far from Swan, Ginger grapples with the profound effects of their mother's life and death upon their own lives. When a new explanation for Catherine's death emerges, and other closely guarded family secrets rise to the surface, Ginger and J.J. are confronted with startling truths, a particular ordeal in a family and a town that want to keep the past buried.
Beautifully evoking the rhythms and idiosyncrasies of the Deep South while telling an utterly compelling story about the complexity of family ties, Swan marks the remarkable fiction d'but of one of the world's best-loved travel writers.
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- PublisherBroadway Books
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0767902858
- ISBN 13 9780767902854
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages319
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