It was during a summer season Patricia and Boyd were spending together in the North Carolina mountains that Edward reappeared.
A perfect first sentence. There is so much between the lines. You can tell Patricia and Boyd are together, but who is 
Edward? What does he mean to Patricia and Boyd? Where has he been and why? The story is just full of this subtle suspense — almost dread. A family that can’t really talk about their history, their problems? How Southern is that.
Not only Southern, but specifically “Mississippi Fiction.” Elizabeth Spencer’s new collection Starting Over makes her our hometown girl. Her resume: born in Carrollton, graduated from Belhaven, taught at Ole Miss, and the perfect cover of Starting Over — a painting by Jackson artist William Hollingsworth.
The beloved author of Light in the Piazza and many novels and story collections is back after more than a decade, and oh boy, this will surely be one of the best of the year.
Elizabeth Spencer will be signing her new book Starting Over on Tuesday, February 4th at 5:00, with a reading at 5:30.
New York Times: A Southern landscape
Los Angeles Times: In ‘Starting Over,’ Elizabeth Spencer’s insight endures
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