Swan : A Novel

✍ Scribed by Frances Mayes

• Book ID: 115269856
• Publisher: Crown
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780767902854

✦ Synopsis

A haunting southern tale of long-buried family secrets by the New York Times bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun and _Under Magnolia
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In her celebrated memoirs of life in Tuscany, Frances Mayes writes masterfully about people in a powerful and shaping place. In Swan , her first novel, she has created an equally intimate world, rich with striking characters and intriguing twists of fate, that hearkens back to her southern roots.
The Masons are a prominent but now fragmented family who have lived for generations in Swan, an edenic, hidebound small town in Georgia. As Swan opens, a bizarre crime pulls Ginger Mason home from her life as an archeologist in Italy: The body of her mother, Catherine, a suicide nineteen years before, has been mysteriously exhumed. Reunited on new terms with her troubled, isolated brother J.J., who has never ventured far from Swan, the Mason children grapple with the profound effects...