Rich in Love (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Josephine Humphreys
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Plot: Bildungsroman
- Time of Work: The early 1980’s
- Setting: Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina
- Principal Characters: Lucille Odom, Warren Odom, Helen Odom, Rae Odom, Billy McQueen, Rhoda Poole, Vera Oxendine
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Family or family life, Mothers, Parents and children, Love or romance, South or Southerners, Marriage, 1980’s, Pregnancy, Fathers, Adultery, Sisters, Abortion
- Locales: South (U.S.), Charleston, SC, Mount Pleasant, SC
The Novel
Rich in Love is the account of a six-month period when the seemingly predictable lives of the Odom family are changed forever. The novel is divided into thirteen chapters. The first-person narrator is Lucille Odom, who was a seventeen-year-old high school senior when these events took place. Throughout the book, Lucille stresses her opposition to any alteration in the family. Her opposition to change may well be one reason that she does not bother to take her examinations so that she can graduate from high school. However, in the last two pages of the novel,...
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