The New York Times bestseller—in trade for the first time.Pat Conroy called Dorothea Benton Frank's debut, Sullivan's Island, "hilarious and wise," while Anne Rivers Siddons declared that it "roars with life." Here, Frank evokes a lush plantation in the heart of modern-day South Carolina-where family ties and hidden truths run as deep and dark as the mighty Edisto River.
How it feels
MoodBittersweet
How it reads
Plot intensityCharacter driven
Character focusSmall ensemble
When and where
ThemesFamily
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