Legendary figures of Mississippi's past—flatboat pilot Mike Fink and the dreaded Harp brothers—mingle with characters from Eudora Welty's own imagination in this exuberant fantasy from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Optimist's Daughter. Jamie Lockhart, berry-stained bandit of the woods, steals Rosamond, the beautiful daughter of pioneer planter Clement Musgrove, setting in motion a frontier fairy tale along the Natchez Trace.
"For all her wild, rich fancy, Welty writes prose that is as disciplined as it is beautiful."—The New Yorker
