This novel of a Mississippi family in the 1920s "presents the essence of the Deep South and does it with infinite finesse" ( The Christian Science Monitor ). From one of the most treasured American writers, winner of a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize, comes Delta Wedding , a vivid and charming portrait of Southern life. Set in 1923, the story is centered on the Fairchilds, a big and clamorous family, who live on a plantation in the Mississippi delta. They are in the midst of planning their daughter's wedding when a nine-year-old relative, Laura McRaven, whose mother has just died, comes to visit. Drama leads to drama, revelation to revelation, in a novel that is "nothing short of wonderful" ( The New Yorker ). The result is a sometimes-riotous view of a Southern family, and the parentless child who learns to become one of them.