Study in Living Colors

摘要

Rosellen Brown's Nov- els characteristically lob bombshells into well-ordered domestic lives and then calmly assess the ensuing damage. In Ten-Mercies (1978), a hus- band's reckless bravado during a boating trip leads to an accident that leaves his wife paralyzed. Civil Wars (1984) portrays a liberal married couple in Mississippi who receive custody of the two children of Klan-supporting, racist in-laws, killed in a car crash. In Before and After (1992), well-to-do parents discover that their son has murdered his girlfriend. In each book, the page-turning question becomes, Then what?