In the Hope of Rising Again

The life of a Southern family from the age of Reconstruction through the Great Depression-a brilliant social novel in the tradition of Julia Glass and Alice Munro In the Hope of Rising Again, Helen Scully's elegant and accomplished first novel, is the story of the Riants and the Morrows-and the wealth of household help and extended family that make up their circle. As such it is history told through one family's fate: the story of the South as it rose slowly, unsteadily, from the ruins of the Civil War and stuttered into the twentieth century and the age of speculation and boom.