Publisher's Synopsis
She was called Edna Akin and she was born in 1910, in a lost corner of Arkansas, a hard land where only ten years before fugitives and raiders had formed a part of the landscape. Edna is Richard Fords mother, and is the starting point for the piecing together of the enigma of this family novel which lies between certainties and suspicions, but always with a modest and intense love. This great American novelist says goodbye to the woman who gave birth to him. This farewell is moving as well as perturbing. (Jean-Paul Dubois).
