Where She Was

Cleo Lewis, a backwoods woman, finds her love for her family and her acceptance of the harshness and drudgery of her life, threatened by her sudden yearning for meaning and understanding and by the arrival of an unknown, mysterious stranger

Hard-working farm wife Cleo Lewis has her hands full, especially during harvest time in the tobacco country of North Carolina, tending to her husband and two babies and bringing in the crop while also struggling awkwardly with religious urges she doesn't fully understand. First-novelist Ferrell describes Cleo's daily life in great detail, but Cleo herself remains a slippery character. The novel generally relies more on descriptive images and familiar Southern gothic touches than on plot development, but nevertheless will have some regional appeal. Ann H. Fisher, Radford P.L., Va.
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