Katherine Anne Porter--Old Mortality--

I just read Katherine Porter's Old Mortality--from her 3 novella collection--Pale Horse, Pale Rider

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Anne_Porter

I was almost about to put it aside for my yard sale book table in July.

It's great--the Southern family is so real, Uncle Gabriel obsessed with Aunt Amy,

the botched duel, Miranda, Miranda's father.

The aunt "with the weak chin" fighting for the women's vote--it's all so real.

One feels like Miranda sitting in the train carriage working out her life--she's clearly KAP's alter ego.

The sister Maria is just a foil.

The restrictions of genteel families and the judgemental, gossipy attitudes.

Too bad KAP was nominated for the Nobel Prize 5 times but never won it.

I've put my copy back on my Keep pile.

Kyi May Kaung

5-23-2024