The view from Delphi
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Jonathan Odell.
Publisher: MacAdam/Cage
Published: 2004
Place of publication: San Francisco, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 510
Subjects: Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction.; Children -- Death -- Fiction.; Race relations -- Fiction.; Young women -- Fiction.; Hate -- Fiction.; Mississippi -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Set in pre-Civil Rights Mississippi, The View From Delphi is the story of two young mothers, Hazel and Vida - one wealthy and white and the other poor and black - who have only two things in common - the devastating loss of their children, and a deep and abiding loathing for one another." "Embittered and distrusting, Vida is harassed by Delphi's racist sheriff and haunted by the son she lost to the world. Hazel, too, has lost a son and can't keep a grip on her fractured life. After drunkenly crashing her car into a manger scene, gunning for the baby Jesus, Hazel is sedated and bed-ridden. Hazel's husband hires Vida to keep tabs on his unpredictable wife. Forced to spend time together with no one else to rely on, the two women find they have more in common than they thought and together they turn the town on its head."--BOOK JACKET.