Raney

Raney, a humorous novel by North Carolina author, Clyde Edgerton, relays Raney Bell Shepherd’s personal account of her tumultuous first two years as a rural, ultra-conservative southern bride, to Charles Shepherd, a flaming liberal whose best friend is black. Though they make beautiful music together, the newlyweds work to harmonize their discordant viewpoints and become one, even as Raney’s staunch Baptist background threatens to blow them apart. An entertaining and thought-provoking novel in which the characters squarely deal with change and the issues at hand.