In her novels and, Kaye Gibbons compiled what one critic has called "A fictional oral history of female wishes [and] hopes." That tradition continues in, a richly woven story that traces the bonds between four generation...In her novels and, Kaye Gibbons compiled what one critic has called "A fictional oral history of female wishes [and] hopes." That tradition continues in, a richly woven story that traces the bonds between four generations of southern women through stories passed from mother to daughter to granddaughter.