The Earnshaw Neighborhood Author:Erskine Caldwell Medora Earnshaw was a disgrace! A woman in her forties, suddenly widowed, getting married after only seven weeks of mourning to a man she'd bought (rumor had it) for a Cadillac and a cemetery plot. In the nouveau riche section of the small Southern city where Medora lived, indignation rose like a flame. That woman didn't belong--they'd sign a... more » petition to get her out.
But this was only the beginning of Medora's incredible behavior. Soon she'd installed in her home a college professor her daughter had taken a fancy to and bought him a cherry red Thunderbird. The expensive Upper Greenwood Avenue area was becoming notorious as the Earnshaw Neighborhood; sightseeing buses included it in their tours ....« less