What You long For, by Anne Clinard Barnhill, is a rich collection that will make you laugh-out-loud in some places and cry in others. Filled with humor and tenderness, Barnhill has written an enormously entertaining group of stories.
Whether she is describing country women telling their stories in βThe Quilting Bee,β or introducing a little boy in love with his best friendβs beer-drinking mother in βKings and Damsels,β Anne Barnhill creates unforgettable characters who feel like people you have encountered in your own life. She describes the interior life of women, in particular, with honesty and wonderfully real details from ordinary life. Simultaneously erotic and down-to-earth, What You Long For, is bound to become a Southern classic.
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