The inkling
By: Fred Chappell.
Series: Voices of the South
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
Subjects: Boys -- Fiction.; North Carolina -- Fiction.
Description: Within the household they share with their mother and uncle in rural North Carolina, Jan, wound mentally taut as a trap, and his retarded sister, Timmie, form a strange but mutually protective partnership. Both children, wise with intimations beyond the shallow comprehension of their elders, are visited with a foreboding sense of fatality.

When the family takes on a new member - a young redheaded housekeeper with goals of her own - the deranged equilibrium in their lives erupts at last in a brilliant shower of inevitable but nonetheless stunning events.