Recipient of the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction Lauded for her
"astute and engrossing" (People) writing style imbued with "originality
galore" (RT Book Reviews), Kim Wright channels the best of Jennifer
Weiner and Sarah Pekkanen in this delightful novel of self-discovery on
the open road as one woman sets out for Graceland hoping to answer the
question: Is Elvis Presley her father?Blues musician Cory Ainsworth is
barely scraping by after her mother's death when she discovers a
priceless piece of rock 'n' roll memorabilia hidden away in a shed out
back of the family's coastal South Carolina home: Elvis Presley's Stutz
Blackhawk, its interior a time capsule of the singer's last day on
earth. A backup singer for the King, Cory's mother Honey was at
Graceland the day Elvis died. She quickly returned home to Beaufort and
married her high school sweetheart. Yearning to uncover the secrets of
her mother's past--and possibly her own identity--Cory decides to drive
the car back to Memphis and turn it over to Elvis's estate, retracing
the exact route her mother took thirty-seven years earlier. As she winds
her way through the sprawling deep south with its quaint towns and long
stretches of open road, the burning question in Cory's mind--who is my
father?--takes a backseat to the truth she learns about her complicated
mother, the minister's daughter who spent a lifetime struggling to
conceal the consequences of a single year of rebellion.
