Mary Lee Settle

6 x 9, 255 pages
paper, ISBN 1-57003-099-5, $12.95t

ABOUT THE BOOK

Searching for an escape from mediocrity, the young heroine of The Clam Shell leaves her hometown of Canona, West Virginia, and enters a Southern women's college. She is not destined for a safe path, however, and her violent awakening comes in the form of a brutal sexual assault through which she ultimately discovers her own hidden strength. Set in 1936, The Clam Shell continues the mesmerizing story Settle began in The Love Eaters.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mary Lee Settle was born in Charleston, West Virginia, and has lived in England, Turkey, and New York. Her novel Blood Tie won the National Book Award and her novel Choices received the Lillian Smith Award for fiction. Settle's other works include the novels Charley Bland, Celebration, The Clam Shell, The Love Eaters, The Kiss of Kinand a memoir, All the Brave Promises. Settle now lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

ALSO BY THE AUTHOR

Addie
Charley Bland
Prisons
Know Nothing
The Scapegoat
The Killing Ground
All the Brave Promises
Blood Tie
Celebration
The Love Eaters and The Kiss of Kin