Mourning Dove

An accurate and heart-wrenching picture of the sensibilities of the American South. Kirkus Book Reviews

The heart has a home when it has an ally.

If Millie Crossan doesnt know anything else, she knows this one truth simply because her brother Finley grew up beside her. Charismatic Finley, eighteen months her senior, becomes Millies guide when their mother Posey leaves their father and moves her children from Minnesota to Memphis shortly after Millies tenth birthday.

Memphis is a world foreign to Millie and Finley. This is the 1970s Memphis, the genteel world of their mothers upbringing and vastly different from anything theyve ever known. Here they are the outsiders. Here, they only have each other. And here, as the years fold over themselves, they mature in a manicured Southern culture where they learn firsthand that much of what glitters isnt gold. Nuance, tradition, and Southern eccentrics flavor Millie and Finleys world as they find their way to belonging.

But what hidden variables take their shared history to leave both brother and sister at such disparate ends?