![]() ![]() Courtney Gray struggles to step away from her Southern Living-style life. ![]() Revered for her powerful female characters, here Lee Smith tells a brilliantly authoritative story of how college pals who grew up in an era when they were still called "girls" have negotiated life as "women." Harriet Holding is a hesitant teacher who has never married (she can't explain why, even to herself). This time, when they reach New Orleans, they'll give the river the ashes of a fifth rafter-beautiful Margaret ("Baby") Ballou. This time it's on the luxury steamboat, The Belle of Natchez, and there's no publicity. Thirty-five years later, four of those "girls" reunite to cruise the river again. It's Girls A-Go-Go Down the Mississippi read the headline in the Paducah, Kentucky, paper. ![]() On a beautiful June day in 1965, a dozen girls-classmates at a picturesque Blue Ridge women's college-launched their homemade raft (inspired by Huck Finn's) on a trip down the Mississippi. ![]()
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