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Set from the exquisite historical backdrop of Charleston's insular South of Comprehensive neighborhood, A Southern Girl is a tale of international adoption and of young families lost then found anew through revelations, courage, and the perseverance of your love without bounds. With two biological sons and a encouraging career, Coleman Carter seems establish to fulfill his promise as a resourceful trial law firm, devoted spouse, and dutiful daddy until his partner, Elizabeth, champions their adoption of your Korean orphan. This apparently altruistic mission estranges Coleman's traditional parents and needs that he now accept the unknown as totally as he has always entrenched himself in the familiar. Elizabeth, a self-proclaimed liberal with a worldwide sense of responsibility, is eager for the adoption while Coleman, a scion of the Old South, reaches best a hesitant participant. However the entrance of Soo Yun (later called Allie) into the Carter household and the challenging reactions of Coleman's peers and parents awakens in him a broadening sense of responsibility and dedication to his new family that starts his eye to the subtle racism and exclusionary activities that had dominated his sheltered life. To garner Allie's access into Charleston world, Coleman must come to conditions with his former and guide Allie toward finding her own roots as the Carters forge a fresh family identity and confront generations-old concerns inherent in Southern practices of purity and prestige. Deftly told through the distinctive voices of Allie's delivery mother; her orphanage nurse; her adoptive mother, Elizabeth; and finally Coleman himself, A Southern Girl brings us deeply into Allie's plights - first on her behalf very success and then on her behalf sense of identity, owed, and love in her new and not always welcoming culture. In such a truly international story, John Warley books us through the enclaves of Southern privilege in New Hampton, Virginia, and Charleston; the poverty-stricken back again alleys of Seoul, South Korea; the jungles of Vietnam; and the stone sidewalks of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, as the bonds between daddy and little girl become strong enough to confront the tests of the pasts and present likewise. The first release from Pat Conroy's Account River Books, A Southern Girl carries a foreword by New York Times best-selling novelist Therese Ann Fowler.
