About the Book The Pink Institution traces four generations of Mississippi women from their run-down, post-Civil War plantations to the modern-day trailer parks that house the youngest generations. As the impoverished decay of the Deep South expresses itself through their bloodlines, a new impression of Southern history and heritage emerges.-- Book Synopsis Beautiful and violent, spare and ominous, this wholly original novel explodes mythologies of southern femininity. Review Quotes Saterstrom writes with a poets economy and eye for visceral detail, collapsing into a mere 140 pages a four-generation history of a Southern family bedeviled by alcoholism, poverty, racism, violence, and mental illness. Her spareness is a mercy. The story she tells is brutal, almost impossible to take; at the same time, her exquisite, cut-to-the-quick language makes this book impossible to put down. -- The Huffington Post, 11 Underappreciated Literary Masterpieces About the Author Selah Saterstrom is the author of the novels Slab , The Meat and Spirit Plan , and The Pink Institution , all published by Coffee House Press. Widely published and anthologized, she also curates Madame Harriette Presents, an occasional series. She teaches and lectures across the United States and is the director of Creative Writing at the University of Denver.