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Swan: A Novel from the author of Under the Tuscan Sun by Mayes, Frances is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A haunting southern tale of long-buried family secrets by the New York Times bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun and Under MagnoliaIn her celebrated memoirs of life in Tuscany, Frances Mayes writes masterfully about people in a powerful and shaping place. In Swan, her first novel, she has created an equally intimate world, rich with striking characters and intriguing twists of fate, that hearkens back to her southern roots.The Masons are a prominent but now fragmented family who have lived for generations in Swan, an edenic, hidebound small town in Georgia. As Swan opens, a bizarre crime pulls Ginger Mason home from her life as an archeologist in Italy: The body of her mother, Catherine, a suicide nineteen years before, has been mysteriously exhumed. Reunited on new terms with her troubled, isolated brother J.J., who has never ventured far from Swan, the Mason children grapple with the profound effects of their mother's life and death on their own lives. When a new explanation for Catherine's death emerges, and other closely guarded family secrets rise to the surface as well, Ginger and J.J. are confronted with startling truths about their family, a particular ordeal in a fa

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Author
Mayes, Frances
Publisher
New York: Broadway Books
Published
2002
Language
EN
ISBN
9780754018858
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Literary Fiction, Mystery
Rating
3.24 / 5 (534 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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