Kaye Gibbons was born in 1960 in Nash County, North Carolina, on Bend of the River Road. She attended North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, studying American and English literature. At twenty-six years old, she wrote her first novel, Ellen Foster. She is also the author of A Virtuous Woman, Charms for the Easy Life, On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon, A Cure for Dreams, Sights Unseen, and Divining Women.
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'When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. I would figure out this or that way and run it down through my head until it got easy.' So begins the tale of Ellen Foster, the brave and engaging heroine of Kaye Gibbons's first novel, which ... SEE MORE