What Gets Into Us

Author: Moira Crone
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Order at: http://www.upress.state.ms.us/catalog/spring2006/what_gets_into_us.html

A story cycle about a North Carolina town. Doris Betts said, "Fayton North Carolina has here its own Sherwood Anderson as Crone interweaves four decades of a town's dreams and secret sorrows. Her skill at plot and suspense so magnify each story that together they interlock and become a complex and satisfying novel."

IMAGE JOURNAL says, "Moira Crone illustrates what Flannery O'Connor called "the realism of distances," the ability to see "near things with their extensions of meaning and thus [see] far things close up." (She) has the born fiction writer's ability to layout a tightly bound world and create large moral dramas within it. Like the women she writes about, Crone's prose is diamond-polished "hard, cool, and elegant, with splendid flashes of comedy..."