First published 1995
Frannie and Doris have spent their lives bound by family obligations. Now the sisters find themselves alone and unexpectedly liberated. They climb into their Plymouth Valiant and begin driving across the country with no fixed destination. The America they encounter is convulsing with change. Civil rights demonstrations fill the streets of Southern towns. News of Martin Luther King's assassination reaches them on the road. The sisters witness a nation transforming itself while they undergo their own metamorphosis. Free from the duties that once defined them, Frannie and Doris must discover who they are when no one expects anything from them. Their cross-country odyssey becomes a journey into independence they never imagined possible. The open road offers them choices they have never had to make.
Genres: fiction, american-fiction, 20th-century, contemporary, 21st-century, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, road-trip
Setting: America, South, Southern Towns
Period: 1960s
200 pages · Paperback · Serpent's Tail