A girl's coming-of-age story is complicated by a certifiably insane mother. Though the mother "gets well" there is an interesting touch of sadness at the loss of the mother's mania that had brought a spark into their lives (in addition to the relief that, since it was now gone, this spark would no longer be setting them on fire). Otherwise, nothing special. Aside from the wonderful line about Duke hospital's doctors being comparable to the "swells" at Johns Hopkins, where Virginians went because they only go north for medical treatment, I rarely felt like I was in the South while reading this. The characters and events could have been from Anywhere, USA.
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