A “majestic, moving novel...an instant classic, a book that will be read, discussed and taught beyond the rest of our lives" ( from the critically acclaimed author of and " reconfirms Ernest J. Gaines's position as an important American writer. Enormously moving.... Gaines unerringly evokes the place and time about which he writes “A quietly moving novel [that] takes us back to a place we've been before to impart a lesson for living.” —