The Pink Institution
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Coffee House Press; Consortium Book Sales & Distribution
Published: April 1, 2004
Place of publication: Minneapolis, USA; Saint Paul, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9781566891554
Subjects: Women -- Mississippi -- Fiction.; Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.; Mississippi -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "In a multigenerational family saga that captures the rich beauty and passionate despair of the land and its inhabitants, The Pink Institution is a riveting, visceral novel written in a style that elegantly unites poetic prose with historic photographs and texts. It is also a testament to the legacy that war, violence, abuse, and poverty have wrought upon the Deep South. As we follow four generations of determined and relentless Mississippi women from their run-down, post-Civil War plantations to their modern-day trailer parks, the impoverished decay of the Deep South expresses itself through their bloodlines in a haunting reenactment of the past."--BOOK JACKET.