Everlasting

Among the many delights to be found in this warm-hearted, graceful novel is its authenticity of language, era and place. Vada Priddy is a veritable mid-twentieth century Everywoman, and Carol Johnson has drawn her with precision, lyricism, a faultless ear for the vernacular--and a great big helping of Oklahoma wit. Everlasting is a treasure of a novel, reminding us how hard it is to live sometimes, how good it is to love, and how decent, finally, people really are.-- RILLA ASKEW, author of FIRE IN BEULAH and three time winner of the Oklahoma Book Award.