"Petry is the writer we have been waiting for; hers are the stories we need to fully illuminate the questions of our moment, while also offering a page-turning good time. Ann Petry, the woman, had it all, and so does her insightful, prescient and unputdownable prose."...
A 1947 novel by best-selling African American author Ann Petry, Country Place opens with a soldier returning from World War II and his effort to rescue his failing marriage.