Title: The Pink Institution
Description: Interweaving visceral, atmospheric prose with historical photographs, images and texts, *The Pink Institution* traces four generations of Mississippi women from their run-down, post-Civil War plantations to the modern-day trailer parks that house the youngest generations. As the impoverished decay of the Deep South expresses itself through their bloodlines, a new impression of Southern history and heritage emerges. The lyrical gravity and singular style of this unforgettable debut novel will transform the reader in its wake.
Subjects: Fiction, Mothers and daughters, Women, Southern gothic, Mississippi, fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, sagas
Places: Mississippi