Help me answer some questions that I have from the book:

What is the relationship between Audrey and Tasker and Mabry? Are they related? I started to think that Tasker might be her father (or grandfather, not sure) ...from the references made to him having relations with a few church members; Audrey's saying that her mother had to raise her in Washington DC as it would have been painful to stay in Wells; and Audrey's unexplained devotion to Tasker. And if this isn't the case, then how to explain Audrey's connection to the family? it has to be more than Cooter, at least I believe that it must.

Now my review of the book is that i did enjoy it, but that although i live in Charlotte, NC and have done for over 26 years, i didn't grow up in the South and have difficulty relating to the social and racial mores and the kind of wandering prose in some "southern" books, i.e., Faulkner, Pat Conroy, Thomas Wolfe. A friend of mine highly recommended this book and Reynolds Price in general, so i will read some of his other novels to see if I can tap into what my friend finds so compelling.