Goner follows the lives of four sisters from a progressive household in the Deep South.
The Sobral sisters grow up listening to the haunting calls of Mississippi riverboats and the rumbling of sugar cane trucks down the River Road; they attend their small town\'s black church, and endlessly speculate about the rel.
The narrative begins with their northern mother\'s arrival in a Louisiana army town as a young newspaper reporter in 1943 and her hasty, unconsidered, marriage to a genteel older man.
Goner follows the lives of four sisters from a progressive household in the Deep South