The Washington Post, September 13th, 1987
A SOUTHERN FAMILY By Gail Godwin Morrow. 540 pp. $l8.95 THE GOOD NEWS is that in this, her seventh novel, Gail Godwin returns to the setting and themes of A Mother and Two Daughters, the book that won her a wide popular following and established her among the important American novelists of the postwar period. The better news is that A Southern Family is, if possible, an even richer and more rewarding book than A Mother and Two Daughters. As for the bad news, the best news is that there isn't any: though A Southern Family may be too long and leisurely for some tastes, or too unabashedly Victor...
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