South of Resurrection

by Jonis Agee

Book Overview

At the age of sixteen, Moline Bedwell fled her hometown of Resurrection, Missouri, and never looked back. Now, twenty years later, she's intent on returning to Resurrection to take care of some family... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140241728
• ISBN13: 9780140241723
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Fine writing, strong characters, interesting plot

The strengths of Jonis Agee as a novelist, her precise observations, her attention to small details, and her complicated, well drawn characters, shine through in this novel. Like "Sweet Eyes," her first novel, "South of Resurrection" peels through the layers of a small town to get at some basic human truths. Agee is particularly effective at portraying a landscape and the people who live on it. Her protagonist, Moline Bedwell, tears through the novel with the past chasing her. The inevitable collision of the past with her return to her home town fulfills the promise of the opening pages.