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Evocatively depicting the small town of Opelika, Miss., in 1957, Gwin (Promise) tells the heart-rending story of a mother feeling trapped in her life, whose death throws her family into turmoil. A satisfying fable of errors and consequences in a tumultuous era. --Publishers Weekly This is the story of a family, but mostly, it's the epic tale of two sisters, and, in the end, we are left with sublime memories of empty sparrow nests, chicken coke awe vine, and reticulating giraffes. A stunning book you will want to read and re-read. --Margaret McMullen, bestselling author of Where the Angels Lived .. .Minrose Gwin tenderly recounts the lives of two sisters shattered by the shocking loss of their mother. The unique voices of outsiders enrich their story, and Gwin pulls together the threads of all characters' lives into an elegant and surprising tapestry. --Diane Chamberlain, New York Times bestselling author of The Dream Daughter THE ACCIDENTALS is a major work by someone whose earlier novels already marked her as one of this generation's great novelists...And it is not only character and plot that make this book so readable; the writing is pure poetry. Gwin has done it again! --Margaret Randall, author of Time's Language: Selected Poems 1959-2018

THE ACCIDENTALS is a major work by someone whose earlier novels already marked her as one of this generation's great novelists...And it is not only character and plot that make this book so readable; the writing is pure poetry. Gwin has done it again! --Margaret Randall, author of Time's Language: Selected Poems 1959-2018

This is the story of a family, but mostly, it's the epic tale of two sisters, and, in the end, we are left with sublime memories of empty sparrow nests, chicken coke awe vine, and reticulating giraffes. A stunning book you will want to read and re-read. --Margaret McMullen, bestselling author of Where the Angels Lived .. .Minrose Gwin tenderly recounts the lives of two sisters shattered by the shocking loss of their mother. The unique voices of outsiders enrich their story, and Gwin pulls together the threads of all characters' lives into an elegant and surprising tapestry. --Diane Chamberlain, New York Times bestselling author of The Dream Daughter THE ACCIDENTALS is a major work by someone whose earlier novels already marked her as one of this generation's great novelists...And it is not only character and plot that make this book so readable; the writing is pure poetry. Gwin has done it again! --Margaret Randall, author of Time's Language: Selected Poems 1959-2018

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Minrose Gwin is a writer, scholar, and educator. Her most recent books are a novel, The Queen of Palmyra, and a memoir, Wishing for Snow. She lives in Chapel Hill, NC, and teaches literature and creative writing at the University of North Carolina and fiction and creative nonfiction workshops at the University of New Mexico Taos Writers Conference. Minrose has been a writer all of her working life, starting out as a newspaper and wire service reporter and working in Mobile, Atlanta, Nashville, and Knoxville.

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