The Pink Institution
Novel by Selah Saterstrom

In a multigenerational family saga that captures the rich beauty and passionate despair of the land and its inhabitants, The Pink Institution is a riveting, visceral novel written in a style that elegantly unites poetic prose with historic photographs and texts. It is also a testament to the legacy that war, violence, abuse, and poverty have wrought upon the Deep South. As we follow four generations of Mississippi women from their run-down, post-Civil War plantations to their modern-day trailer parks, the impoverished decay of the Deep South expresses itself through their bloodlines in a haunting reenactment of the past. Beautiful and violent, spare and ominous, this wholly original novel explodes mythologies of Southern femininity as it reaches past its Dixie boundaries and grasps the tainted lifelines of every family ghost story.

Also by this author:

• The Meat and Spirit Plan