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Learn moreRhoda Manning is home for the summer in Dunleith, Alabama. In an age of conformity and innocence, the 19-year-old is tired of conventional virtue. Resisting her easy life, she yearns for meaning and beauty, profundity and mystery. Impulsive and adventurous, she attends a midnight meeting of the Klan, and then repelled, hurls herself into the civil rights movement.
Half-conscious of her unmet needs and desires, she vacillates between the world of her family and that of her dreams, flirting with danger, pressing against the edge -- with disturbing and tragic consequences.
Ellen Gilchrist was born February 20, 1935, in Vicksburg, Mississippi and has had a successful career that includes stints as an editor and commentator. Other works of Gilchrist include Sarah ConleyandThe Anna Papers.