In the small Midwestern town of Liberty Center, Lucy Nelson grows up hardened by her father's alcoholism and her family's failures, setting her will against them and later against her husband Roy Bassart, whom she marries despite secretly despising him.
Books mentioned in When She Was Good (1)
The Story of a Soul by Thérèse of Lisieux: “Kitty had a little book with a blue cover called The Story of a Soul, in which Saint Teresa herself had written down all the wonderful things she had ever thought or said.”
Books that mention When She Was Good (1)
The Facts by Philip Roth: “exploiting this painful, ludicrous episode for a scene in my novel When She Was Good”