By Jenny Wingfield
“Raw, darkish, and robust . . . Southern Gothic at its top. The Homecoming of Samuel Lake places one in brain of Erskine Caldwell and Flannery O’Connor.”—Fannie Flagg
each first Sunday in June, participants of the Moses extended family assemble for an annual reunion at a sprawling hundred-acre farm in Arkansas. and each yr, Samuel Lake, a colourful and devoted younger preacher, brings his loved spouse, Willadee Moses, and their 3 teenagers again for the festivities. in the course of all of it, Samuel and Willadee’s outspoken eleven-year-old daughter, Swan, is a vibrant gentle. Her excessive spirits and fearlessness have alternately seduced and bedeviled 3 generations of the relatives. yet simply because the reunion is getting lower than means, tragedy moves, jolting the relations to their center and environment the degree for a summer season of hindrance and profound swap.
With the clear-eyed knowledge that illuminates the main tragic—and triumphant—aspects of human nature, Jenny Wingfield has created an everlasting paintings of fiction.
“Jenny Wingfield has given us a mind-blowing novel [that] will make you chortle out loud one minute, carry your breath the following, and weep if you least anticipate it.”—Dorothea Benton Frank, writer of Folly Beach
“[This novel] touches on many genres—family lifestyles, Christian fiction, coming-of-age, and suspense. . . . Readers will love it.”—Library Journal (starred review)
“Wingfield hooks the reader together with her starting sentence. . . . The reader is punctiliously stuck up within the relatives saga.”—Abilene Reporter-News
“A attractive debut . . . a bittersweet, inspirational tale.”—The Dallas Morning News
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