Books of the States: Jane Smiley on Jetta Carleton

By Tom

Jane Smiley may be best known as an Iowa writer, thanks toA Thousand Acres andMoo, and she now lives in California, the setting of her recent novel Ten Days in the Hills and her upcoming one, her first book for young readers, The Georges and the Jewels, which winningly revives the lost genre of the horse book for girls. But she grew up in Missouri, and the book she chose from that very literary state is Jetta Carleton's 1962 novel,The Moonflower Vine:

Vide Jane Smiley on The Moonflower Vine

--Tom