The Married Land

<p>THE MARRIED LAND a work of high-seriousness lusty humor and a passion for life tells the story of Daniel Byrne’s return home to Greenville Mississippi where he finds a welter of confusion. As he struggles to restore it to some order he faces the question of how the contradictions he finds — family unravellings polarities of North and South black and white rich and poor — could have formed a time-defying union a center in which opposites blend together in an anatomy of love.</p>