It’s about character in Flying Shoes
When Mary Byrd Thornton was a teenager her nine-year-old stepbrother was murdered and she now has received the news that the police are going to reopen her stepbrother’s case. She has tried to go on but because of the investigation must return to her hometown which means getting her family and friends ready for her departure, and all of them from the housekeeper to Mary Byrd’s husband have a story.With her many complicated relationships Mary Byrd is trying to make sense of her life and the killing of her stepbrother in Flying Shoes by Lisa Howorth. This novel is not a mystery or a thriller but a colorful, descriptive character study with both humor and drama. The story takes place in Mississippi in a changing South where old and new collide.
