The spare, poetic prose of Raymond Carver meets Jenny Offiill's <i>Department of Speculation</i> and Elizabeth Strout's <i>My Name Is Lucy Barton</i>. In a period when many families in the heartland are shattered by drug addiction, this timely novel chronicles one woman's attempts to understand and survive her blended family, including her meth-addicted son. BEAUT, the winner of the 2018 Lee Smith Novel Prize, is the first novel of acclaimed poet Donald...
