A debut novel by the 1987 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, about an artist on a journey of self-discovery-navigating a family secret, racism, and the conflict between marriage and career.
"Skillfully evokes the mood of a decade when social change seemed not only possible but imminent." -Washington Post Book World
When a woman returns to her Midwestern hometown as an artist-in-residence to teach puppetry to schoolchildren, her homecoming also means grappling with artistic ambition, memories of rejected love, and shocking truths about her family.
| ISBN: | 9780679742401 |
| Publication date: | 5th October 1993 |
| Author: | Rita Dove |
| Publisher: | Vintage Books an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 278 pages |
| Series: | Vintage Contemporaries |
| Genres: |
General Fiction Family Drama |