num_pages: 144
description: Edna's Uncle Daniel Ponder is quite a character in the town of Clay, Mississippi: he dresses fit to kill and is as good as gold. But he's rich as Croesus, and a great deal too generous. Needing someone to give things to, he marries 17-year-old Bonnie Dee from a poor backwoods family...
language: English
title: The Ponder Heart
titlecomplete: The Ponder Heart
genres: Fiction, American, Novella, Humor, Literature, Classics, Novels, Southern, Literary Fiction, Southern Gothic
ratings_count: 1953
places: Mississippi
awards: awardedAt: -473356800000
name: William Dean Howells Medal
publisher: Virago