Kathy Hepinstall, Author . Putnam $23.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-399-14936-8
A mother's worst nightmare threatens to become reality in Hepinstall's third novel. Unlike her first two Southern gothic creations (Absence of Nectar
and The House of Gentle Men), this haunting tale takes a more contemporary, less regional...
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Kathy Hepinstall, Author William Morrow & Company $22 (352p) ISBN 978-0-380-97809-0
Set in rural Louisiana during and after WWII, this odd but appealing first novel is a disconcerting yet harmonious mix of realistic characters and place, with a fable-like premise that is initially hard to accept but acquires resonance as the book...
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Kathy Hepinstall. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-547-71207-9
Hepinstall (The Absence of Nectar) exquisitely illustrates the fate of societal outsiders in this richly compelling Civil War–era tale of the former mistress of a Virginia plantation, now confined to a beautiful island asylum, and her burgeoning...
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Kathy Hepinstall. Viking/Dorman, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-399-56209-9
Hepinstall’s Southern coming-of-age novel, about a girl who worries that her 68-year-old, Virginia Slims-smoking mother will die from cancer, could easily have been a TLC reality series caricature, with Polly Havens a hybrid of Granny from The...
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