Wilton Barnhardt, a man with a tendency to write about women, focuses on the eccentricities of the South in his latest novel Lookaway, Lookaway. In her review, Cathleen Schine explores the novel as a “layered reflection on family.” The characters remain devoted to the southern ideals of generations past as they struggle with obstacles ranging from abuse to pregnancy to rape.
In this “sad and savagely funny” exploration of “one place inexplicably contained in the other,” the South becomes a world unto itself, a region of the United States that finds itself resistant to the “monoculture” of the country.
