Mother Fell

"Mother Fell: When she learns her mother has fallen, Prentiss Clay, 49, a long-exiled California lawyer, returns to Buford, Mississippi. Before her mother dies, she hopes to gain forgiveness for causing her father's death and to find the son she has not seen for thirty years. In the eleven days of the novel, she discovers the cruel deception that has shaped her life and that she must do the forgiving"--