num_pages: 296
description: Set against the backdrop of the rural South in the 1940s, an evocative memoir of a troubled childhood and family captures a painful world of alcoholism, mental illness, and denial as its explores the effects of trauma and the strengths of circumstances that allow children to survive them.
language: English
title: Sweet Mystery: A Book of Remembering
titlecomplete: Sweet Mystery: A Book of Remembering (Deep South Books)
genres: Memoir
ratings_count: 18
publisher: University Alabama Press