Angie Mangiamele runs a film company in Hoboken, New Jerseyโa long way (in more ways than one) from Ogilvie, Georgia. But a new project has brought her to this small Southern town, where she stands out like a fire truck in a flower garden.
Sheโs been invited to Ogilvie by Miss Zula Bragg, the intensely private literary legend whoโs agreed to appear in a documentary made by Angieโs highly unconventional crew. And thereโs someone else in own Angie looks forward to seeing: John Grant, a descendant of Ogilvieโs founders with whom she had a long-ago summer romance. But Johnโs weddingโto the daughter of a prominent local familyโis just days away, and promises to be the sleepy townโs social event of the year.
What could possibly go right?
Rosina Lippi is a former academic and the author of over a dozen books of fiction and scholarly work. As Sara Donati, she is the author of the Wilderness series of six novels, which has over a million copies in print. Her novels The Gilded Hour, Where the Light Enters, and The Sweet Blue Distance are set in the same historical fiction universe. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Homestead, won the PEN/Hemingway Award and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She lives on Puget Sound with her family.