The Disenchantment of Narcissa Tarver

NARCISSA Tarver feels like a misfit in her vast extended family as it struggles to maintain white privilege in early Jim Crow southern Mississippi. Largely ignored by parents who are old enough to be her grandparents, young Cissa longs to be important like her adult sister and brothers, especially her brother DUNCAN, who is a doctor and politician. Her only friend is her Negro caregiver, JULIA, though she also obsesses over a chance encounter with a Choctaw woman whom her mother warns is a ...