Fatal Flowers: On Sin, Sex, and Suicide in the Deep South Book Summary and Study Guide

Poet and author Daniell presents a portrait of life in the South -- particularly of women in the South: her mother, herself, and other women older and younger -- under the lash of traditional religious values and gender roles. Her father was an alcoholic and her mother became mentally ill and physically abusive. Daniell went through three marriages, countless male lovers, and a few female lovers as well, to get beyond the limits of her upbringing. This memoir and sociological study is a genteel horror story, the underside of Florence King's hilarious books about Southern psycho-sexual mores.
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