New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel set in the rural American South where this award-winning writer was born and grew up. Publisher's Weekly calls this a "bawdy, serious novel that is part allegory, part morality play and completely riveting. The night of the storm, a young mountain girl delivers a baby daughter and disappears. Next morning, Raymond Toker finds the baby under a laurel bush and takes to the mountain roads to find her a home." 298 pp. ISBN: 0-394585410.