Scarlet Sister Mary: Pulitzer Prize Winner

Winner of the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Scarlet Sister Mary is a haunting portrait of love, faith, and resilience in the post-Civil War South. Set among the Gullah people of South Carolina's Lowcountry, the novel follows Mary, a proud and passionate young woman whose defiance of tradition sets her at odds with her community. When she chooses a path of independence-embracing love, motherhood, and desire on her own terms-Mary is both condemned and admired, a figure of scandal and stren...