Bastard Out of Carolina

A profound portrait of family dynamics in the rural South and “an essential novel” ( The New Yorker ) “As close to flawless as any reader could ask for . . . The living language [Allison] has created is as exact and innovative as the language of To Kill a Mockingbird and The Catcher in the Rye . ” —The New York Times Book Review One of  The Atlantic ’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years The publication of Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina was a landmark event that won