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The first time in "Modern Classics" for Welty's story cycle about the inhabitants of the fictional small town of Morgana, Mississippi.
Synopsis
Snowdie has to bring up her twin boys alone after her husband, King Maclain, disappears one day, discarding his hat on the banks of the Big Black. Loch Morrison, convalescing with malaria, watches from his bedroom window as wayward Virgie Rainey meets a sailor in the vacant house opposite.