The last girls

By Lee Smith

Subjects: Women college graduates in fiction, Domestic fiction, Mississippi River in fiction, Fiction, general, Friendship, fiction, Large type books, Female friendship in fiction, Female friendship, River boats in fiction, River boats, Southern states, fiction, Women college graduates, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Class reunions in fiction, Fiction, psychological, Class reunions, Southern States in fiction

Description: "Revered for her powerful female characters, Lee Smith tells a perceptive story of how college pals who grew up in an era when they were still called "girls" have negotiated life as women. Harriet Holding is a hesitant teacher who has never married (she can't explain why, even to herself). Courtney Gray struggles to escape her Southern Living lifestyle. Catherine Wilson, a sculptor, is suffocating in her happy third marriage. Anna Todd is a world-famous romance novelist escaping her own tragedies through her fiction. And finally there is Baby, the girl they come to bury - along with their memories of her rebellions and betrayals."--BOOK JACKET.