Vinegar Hill

It is 1972 when circumstance carries Ellen Grier and her family back to Holly's Field, Wisconsin. Dutifully accompanying her newly unemployed husband, Ellen has brought her two children into the home of her in-laws on Vinegar Hill - a loveless house suffused with the settling dust of bitterness and routine - where calculated cruelty is a way of life preserved and perpetuated in the service of a rigid, exacting and angry God. Behind the façade of false piety, there are sins and secrets in this place that could crush a vibrant woman's passionate spirit. And here Ellen must find the strength to endure, change, and grow in the all-pervading darkness that threatens to destroy everything she is and everyone she loves.

"Ms. Ansay's gift for minute observation allows her to create a place so palpably dreadful that readers will wish they didn't remember Vinegar Hill as clearly as they will." -- The New York Times Book Review
"One of the year's best books." -- Chicago Tribune
"Sweet, tender and chilling." -- Washington Post Book World
"A powerful storyteller with lyrical gifts and a wry, observant eye." -- Amy Tan

A. Manette Ansay grew up in Wisconsin among sixty-seven cousins and over 200 second cousins. She is the author of six novels, as well as a short story collection and a memoir. Her awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, a Pushcart Prize, the Nelson Algren Prize, and two Great Lakes Book Awards.She lives with her daughter in Florida, where she teaches in the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Miami. Debra Monk received the Tony Award for best supporting actress in Redwood Curtains and has also received two other Tony nominations. She co-wrote and starred in Pumpboys and Dinettes and Oil City Symphony. She won an Emmy for her work on NYPD Blue, and has also appeared in such films as The Dance Movie, Devil's Advocate and The Bridges of Madison County.

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