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Boy Family Linen is right on. Everyone has some. Some dirtier than others. But keep digging and some can be real nasty. Some you may wish you never knew about. Great read. Funny, engaging, suspenseful and full of life.

Dirty family linen can be discovered in many ways. In this book it involves a memory relived through hypnosis, a funeral that brings a family together and the evacuation of a swimming pool on the site of an old well.

Loved this quote from The Chattanooga Times: "It can make you laugh, and it can make you cry. At times if can make you uneasy with the truth. No reader can ask for more than that."

Good, interesting book that keeps you involved until the very last page.

For anyone who has not encountered the work of Lee Smith in their reading, she is worth a read. I started with Oral Histry and loved it, and moved on to this book. Lee Smith is a Southern storyteller in the style of Flannery O'Conner or Carson McCullers.

Well-written family saga.

This book was entertaining and somewhat suspenseful. The artist shows true mastery in the way she defines each character's unique point of view and particular observations as the family members share a common experience.