“The most powerful and also the most lyrical novel about race, racism, and denial in the American South since
To Kill a Mockingbird
.” — Lee Smith, author of
On Agate Hill
“Exquisitely beautiful… The novel grips the reader from its first page and relentlessly drives us to its conclusion.” — William Ferris, author of
Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues
An atmospheric debut novel about growing up in the changing South in 1960s Mississippi in the tradition of Sue Monk Kidd’s
The Secret Life of Bees
and Kathryn Stockett’s
The Help
. In the words of Jill McCorkle (
Going Away Shoes
), “Minrose Gwin is an extremely gifted writer and
The Queen of Palmyra
is a brilliant and compelling novel.”