Spence + Lila

Name: Spence + Lila
Author: Bobbie Ann Mason

by Bobbie Ann Mason

Aging couple navigates illness and change in rural Kentucky marriage

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Bobbie Ann Mason

American novelist and short-story writer from Kentucky whose In Country is a celebrated novel about a young woman's reckoning with the Vietnam War. Her Shiloh and Other Stories is equally admired. She is an important voice in American working-class and Southern literary fiction.

More by Bobbie Ann Mason

Shiloh and Other StoriesCollection of interconnected stories of contemporary working-class Kentucky life
In CountryYoung woman confronts Vietnam trauma through her uncle's war experiences
Spence and LilaAging couple navigates illness and change in rural Kentucky marriage
Feather CrownsWoman's motherhood and survival tested by multiple births and historical upheaval
An Atomic RomanceWoman's atomic bomb experience transformed into family story and personal mythology
The Girl in the Blue BeretWoman journalist's midlife investigation of her WWII lover during Paris occupation