The Fennel Family Papers by William P Baldwin

The Los Angeles Times linked William Baldwin to both Gabriel Garcia Marquez while Toni Morrison after the publication of The Hard to Catch Mercy, and the New York Times called it a brilliant parody of the Great Southern Novel. Baldwin has lived in the Lowcountry of South Carolina his entire life. He's written and co-written a number of books, both fiction and nonfiction, including Mrs. The Fennel Family Documents, Heaven is a Lovely Place, Inland Passages and Mantelpieces of the Old South, Whaley and Her Charleston Garden