I found this story to be trivial and thus hard to appreciate.

I also object to the over-exuberant style.

The story recounts what happens one Fourth of July in a family in a little town called China Grove after the narrator’s sister separates from her husband and moves back home.

The narrator/postmistress decides to move into her post office and live there, apparently to escape from her family and get some peace and quiet.

I won’t go into the details of the story’s content – I will restrict myself to saying that I found it neither interesting or entertaining. ( )

Nobody does Southern humor better than Eudora Welty. I think some of the bickering when I was young was caused by that infernal heat.

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I loved this story. Back in college I took a lit class and the prof assigned a lot of southern writers to read. Eudora Welty was one of them. She was so funny! I felt like I was in Mississippi. ( )