The South: A Novel Maggie O'Farrell and full of delightfully zany

and full of delightfully zany exuberance

ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times

and a prince in distress in this “appealingly breezy” (Kirkus Reviews) and “deftly written” (School Library Journal

complicated family dynamics

she uses an inventive hybrid narrative

The South: A Novel Maggie O'Farrell and full of delightfully zanyA radiant, intimate novel of the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summerabout family, desire, and what we inherit. When his grandfather dies, Jay travels south with his family to the property theyve inherited, a once flourishing farm that has fallen into disrepair. The trees are diseased, the fields parched from months of drought. Jays father, Jack, sends him out to work the land, or whatever land is left. Over the course of