The Pink Institution

Beautiful and violent, spare and ominous, this wholly original novel explodes mythologies of Southern femininity.

In a multigenerational family saga that captures the rich beauty and passionate despair of the land and its inhabitants, The Pink Institution is a riveting, visceral novel written in a style that elegantly unites poetic prose with historic photographs and texts. It is also a testament to the legacy that war, violence, abuse, and poverty have wrought upon the Deep South. As we follow four generations of determined and relentless Mississippi women from their run-down, post-Civil War plantations to their modern-day trailer parks, the impoverished decay of the Deep South expresses itself through their bloodlines in a haunting reenactment of the past.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: 04/01/2004
ISBN: 9781566891554
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 7.46h x 5.00w x 0.45d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 03/22/2004 pg. 62
Library Journal 05/01/2004 pg. 141