This family history centered around three women from three generations
spans the Civil War through the Jazz Age. Fans of Sallie Bingham's work
will especially appreciate her parents Mary and Barry's romance that
unfolds in letters and finally results in marriage. Bingham beautifully
demonstrates an inheritance of emotion, morality, ideology, and most
lasting of all, irreverence.
Sallie Bingham has published four short story collections, four
novels, a memoir, and several plays. Bingham was a director of the
National Book Critics Circle, and founded the Kentucky Foundation for
Women and the Sallie Bingham Archive for Women's Papers and Culture at
Duke University.