The novel is set primarily in Charlotte, NC during
the first decade of the 21st century. Conversations and flashbacks take us back
in the lives of the Jarvis-Johnston family as far as the Civil War. Jerene and
Duke Johnston are a society family steeped in a struggle to maintain their
social standing, and have more than their share of shocking secrets. The four
Johnston children are super complicated and each chapter is told by a different
member of this dysfunctional (to say the least) family of liars, cheaters,
drunks, skanks, and hypocrites. It’s a fantastic American novel, filled with
enough historical content to make the readers who don’t care much for skanks
and drunks happy.
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