Interweaves the events of Tom Wingo's summer in New York and his relationship to Susan Lowenstein, his sister Savannah's beautiful psychiatrist, and the complex history of the South Carolinian Wingo family, from World War II through Vietnam.

Includes Reader's guide and preview of South of broad. "Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Houghton Mifflin... in 1986" --T.p. verso.