Title: Against the country
Description: "Set in the Virginia pines, and overrun with failed parents, racist sex offenders, cast-off priests, and suicidal chickens, this novel challenges literary convention even as it attacks our national myth: that the rural naturally engenders good, while the urban breeds an inevitable sin"--Dust jacket flap.
Subjects: Country life, Families, City and town life, Fiction, Family life, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, family life, Fiction, coming of age, Fiction, psychological, Virginia, fiction
Places: Virginia