Audio Book Description:
On a beautiful June day in 1965, a dozen girls launched their homeade raft on a trip down the Mississippi. Thirty-five years later, four of those"girls" reunite on the river. This time it`s on a luxury steamboat, and when they reach New Orleans, they`ll give theriver the ashes of a fifth rafter. Lee Smith tells a brilliantly perceptive story of howcollege palys who grew up in an era when they were still called "girls" have negotiatedlife as women. Harriet is a hesitant teacher who has never married, while Courtney struggles to escape her Southern Living lifestyle. Catherine issuffocating in her happy third marriage,and Anna is a romance novelist escaping her own tragedies, through her fiction. Finally, there is Baby, the girl theycome to bury-along with their memories of her rebellions and betrayals.
