Set on the mississippi delta in 1923, this story captures the mind and manners of the fairchilds, a large aristocratic family, self-contained and elusive as the wind. The vagaries of the fairchilds are keenly observed, a...Set on the mississippi delta in 1923, this story captures the mind and manners of the fairchilds, a large aristocratic family, self-contained and elusive as the wind. The vagaries of the fairchilds are keenly observed, and sometimes harshly judged, by nine-year-old laura mcraven, a Fairchild cousin who takes the yellow dog train to the delta for Dabney Fairchild's wedding.