I absolutely loved Laura Lee Smith’s Heart of Palm, a “high middlebrow”  Southern novel about a “redneck” family:  the father’s a redneck, the mother’s more or less an “aristocrat,”  the boys are wild, and the daughter has OCD.  The novel is a comedy, but the family is bound by tragedy,  and it follows Arla and Frank and their children through 40-odd years.   (I wrote about it here.)

We have 5,000 double-shelved books and are running out of room.

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I truly recommend it.