Sally Handley’s Reviews > Lowcountry Boil > Status Update

After reading Ali Smith's How to Be Both, this book is like a tall, cold glass of water following a walk in the desert. Beautiful, crystalline prose: "There was no moon to speak of -- a slender cut that chiseled shafts of light through the limbs of the live oaks and created quiet shadows and sequined reflections on the surface of the water." Can you ask for a better opening line?