My Drowning

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 258. Quarter-bound brown cloth over ocean blue paper boards, lettered in gilt to spine; cinnamon-brown endpapers. Jacket design by Bonnie Campbell.

Winner of the Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Writers' Award. Author's third novel, set in the rural South, is the story of an aging woman searching for the elusive meaning of a recurring dream that has haunted her all through her life. "The third novel by this PEN/Hemingway Award finalist (Dream Boy; Winter Birds) is an evocative, uncompromising account of a hardscrabble childhood in rural North Carolina that shows Grimsley to be an accomplished stylist and a complex moralist. [...] Grimsley's delicate prose and the defiant resilience of his protagonist make reading his work a richly gratifying experience." –Publishers Weekly