SLOW POISON
by Sheila Bosworth
Knopf; 322 pages; $21
Do Southern writers have longer memories than other people, or does it only seem that way? In her second novel, Sheila Bosworth, a New Orleans native, evokes her home state and its people with elegiac grace and gusts of humor. The combination goes down as smoothly as bourbon mixed with bitters and sugar, a drink that has "the transcendent blend of passion and troubles and sweet pity."
On a flight from Manhattan to Louisiana, Rory Cade recounts a family history that echoes the turbulent events of the '60s. The slow poison of...
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