Perfume River

From one of America’s most important writers, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain , comes Perfume River , an exquisite novel that examines family ties and the legacy of the Vietnam war through the portrait of a single North Florida family.

Robert Quinlan is a seventy-year-old historian teaching at Florida State University, where his wife Darla is also tenured. Their marriage, forged in the fervor of anti-Vietnam War protests, now bears…