Title: The surface of Earth
Description: A family saga set in North Caroline and Virginia between 1903 and 1944 depicts three generations of the Kendals and the Mayfields. Sixteen-year-old Eva Kendal elopes with her thirty-two-year-old Latin teacher, Forrest Mayfield. Before long, the suicide of Eva's mother brings Eva and her young son home, where they remain for years.
Subjects: Fiction, Fiction in English, Mayfield family (Fictitious characters), Domestic fiction, Family, Fiction, family life, Southern states, fiction, Families
Places: Southern States