Pulitzer Prize Fiction Winner
Lamb in His Bosom
by Caroline Miller
Summary
In the pine woods and small clearings of antebellum south Georgia, young Cean Carver leaves her parents' cabin to begin married life on the frontier, enduring childbirth, loss, and seasonal hardship over many decades. Miller writes in a richly textured vernacular drawn from the speech and folkways of backcountry Georgians she knew firsthand. The novel is a quiet epic of female endurance and the textures of pioneer domestic life.
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Historical Context & Significance
Miller was a young Georgia housewife who wrote her first novel while raising her children. The book was praised for its lyrical prose and authentic depiction of pioneer women's lives in the rural South.