Gods in Alabama will send you careening from tears to laughter and back.
Eerie connections link Martha and Olive, who both kept the same secret without knowing it.
One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory.
A man escaping from a hotel fire sees a woman standing beneath a tree. He approaches her and sets in motion a series of events that will change his life forever. Years later, traveling from New England to Florida by train, he reflects back on his obsession with this unknown and ultimately unknowable woman - his courtship of her, his marriage to her, and the unforgivable act that ripped their family apart. Spanning three decades from 1899 to 1933.