Night Journal

<b>A mesmerizing novel of four generations of Southwestern women bound to a mythical legacy</b> <p> With its family secrets and hallowed texts containing explosive truths <i>The Night Journal</i> suggests A. S. Byatt's <i>Possession</i> transplanted to the raw and beautiful landscape of the American Southwest. Meg Mabry has spent her life oppressed by her family's legacy--a heritage beginning with the journals written by her great-grandmother in the 1890s and solidified by her grandmother Bassie a famous historian who published them to great acclaim. Until now Meg has stubbornly refused to read the journals. But when she concedes to accompany the elderly and vipertongued Bassie on a return trip to the fabled land of her childhood in New Mexico Meg finally succumbs to the allure of her great-grandmother's story--and soon everything she believed about her family is turned upside down. <p/></p>