This is the central volume in Horton Foote\'s remarkable nine-play Orphans\' Home Cycle, in which the author chronicles the evolution of a family--the strengths that bind its members together and the strains that force them apart--and the cataclysmic changes in Southern society over twenty-six turbulent years.
Beginning in 1902 with the death of the protagonist\'s father--a loss that sends twelve-year-old Horace Robedaux on an odyssey to the darkest corners of the heart--and ending in 1928 with.
This is the central volume in Horton Foote\'s remarkable nine-play Orphans\' Home Cycle, in which the author chronicles the evolution of a family--the strengths that bind its members together and the strains that force them apart--and the cataclysmic changes in Southern society over twenty-six turbulent years
