A painfully honest portait of suburban life captures all of the quiet desperation, humor, struggles, and alienation that can lurk behind a facade of the serenity of the suburbs. A first novel

Originally published in 1988, this first novel by Lawrence Naumoff, a native of N.C. and a teacher at UNC Chapel Hill, is often called his most recognizably Southern. It follows the lives of a young woman married to who she believed to be a good man---not like her father. She had thought that she has escaped her childhood, and all the things that happened, mostly relating to her father, who lives in a darkly comic world of 'benign' racism. He is oblivious to almost everything, including to his long suffering--also rendered in a darkly comic way--wife. The book moves between humor and the serious business of Sally trying so hard to fix her life. The lives of the daughter, her husband, their parents, and an endearing street girl, all eventually enter the zone of truth and courage and responsibility of the events in their past, and they can then move on.

I found this book on the discount shelves of a local used book store.

Left @ Deco Free Book Drop (Little Free Library #35995) @ W Hargett St & S Salisbury St, Raleigh, NC. (Latitude: 35°46'41.6"N, Longitude: 78°38'24.4"W) #raleighspace #BookCrossing https://www.bookcrossing.com/hunt/1/36/19695/811410

I am buying books from the outside shelves at The Readers Corner (a Raleigh used book store) and releasing them. This is one of those books. If you like it, take it and write a journal entry at www.BookCrossing.com - its easy and anonymous. Then when you are done with it, find a nice person or place to release it. I look forward to reading your thoughts on this book and finding out where you got it from. This book is on an adventure we can share with it.