Ponder Heart

<strong>A wonderful tragicomedy of a Mississippi family a vast inheritance and an impulsive heir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of<em> Delta Wedding (The New York Times).</em></strong><br/>Daniel Ponder is the amiable heir to the wealthiest family in Clay County Mississippi. To friends and strangers he's also the most generous having given away heirlooms a watch and so far at least one family business. His niece Edna Earle has a solution to save the Ponder fortune from Daniel's mortifying philanthropy: As much as she loves Daniel she's decided to have him institutionalized.<br/>Foolproof as the plan may seem it comes with a kink -- one that sets in motion a runaway scheme of mistaken identity a hapless local widow a reckless wedding a dim-witted teenage bride and a twist of dumb luck that lands this once-respectable Southern family in court to brave an embarrassing trial for murder. It's become the talk of Clay County. And the loose-tongued Edna Earle will tell you all about it.<br/>The most revered figure in contemporary American letters said The New York Times of Eudora Welty which also hailed The Ponder Heart -- a winner of the William Dean Howells Medal which was adapted into both a Broadway play and a PBS Masterpiece series -- as Miss Welty at her comic compassionate best.