Roses, Rhododendron (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Alice Adams
- First Published: 1975
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: The 1940's to 1970's
- Setting: North Carolina
- Principal Characters: Jane, Margot Kilgore, Harriet Farr, Emily Farr
- Genres: Short fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Girls, United States or Americans, South or Southerners, Twentieth century, 1940’s, Friendship, Flowers, Antiques, Roses
- Locales: North Carolina
The Story
The bright blossoms of the rose and the rhododendron remind Jane of the summer when she was ten years old. During the previous spring Jane's father ran off with a young woman, leaving her and her mother in an antique-filled city apartment in Boston. One evening during a thunderstorm, her mother decides to move to North Carolina and open an antique store. Thus the two find themselves in a small southern town, where Jane first experiences falling in love with a place, a house, and a family.
To fill Margot's shop in their small house requires scouring the...
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