October 21st, 2002

Frances Mayes, the best-selling author of Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany, is publishing her first novel, a haunting tale set in the Deep South, told in the tradition of Kaye Gibbons and Reynolds Price. A woman is called home to Georgia from her job in Italy after her long-dead mother's body is mysteriously exhumed. Dark family secrets bubble to the surface in this dark, compelling novel.