Why Mattie marries Jimmy Lee Turner is a
question she can t really answer. He d been
better off, she says, marrying "somebody like
my sister-in law Celeste...One of those girls born
knowing who she is and what she s supposed to
be doing at all times. Bloode"
New novelist Rebecca Godwin has created
the voice of Mattie Tnrner so skillfully that
reading Private Parts naturally slips into eager
listening. Godwin s craft becomes a living voice
in the ear, like the telephone gossip Mattie can t
hang up on.
Not that Mattie wasn t thrilled to go out on
dates with Jimmy Lee. But their brief courtship
is transformed overnight into a near-silent mar
riage, she going through her motions, he throwing
fits behind a door. Even on their honeymoon,
Mattie lies awake thinking while Jimmy Lee
snores. Mattie feels alone-abandoned by her
mother, distant from her boyish husband,
scorned by Iris higher-class thmily, and at best
amused by the other women in Red Hill, South
Carolina. From passive acceptance of what life
ofl~rs, Mattie grows to expect more. And when
a violent storm tears into town, she finds she
must break out of the stifling existence she s
endured tbr too many years.
In Mattie Turner, Godwin gives life to a
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