From rear book "Under one Southern gothic roof, Bertha Harris packs the most comic and outrageous family ever assembled in fiction...then sends its members into the world to drive the rest of us crazy with desire."
Bertha Anne Harris, M.F.A. (Women's College of University of North Carolina, 1969), was a novelist, professor at East Carolina University and at UNC Charlotte, later director of Women's Studies and Professor of Performing and Creative Arts at the College of Staten Island CUNY.