Set on a plantation in Mississippi as Dabney Fairchild prepares for her wedding, Eudora Welty's 1945 novel portrays the daily dramas of a large and diverse Southern clan. It's a hot, sultry summer day in 1923, and as the family gathers for the ceremony, Welty provides not only a clear-eyed and humorous portrait of a cross-section of characters, but also a sharp-eyed look at the American South, in all its socially rigid, tradition-obsessed complexity. Most of all, she takes the reader into the landscape of the Mississippi delta, an area Welty knew intimately and wrote about all her life--but perhaps never so tellingly as in this early novel.
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