When Lois Lane Sings

Callie Harp would know Barbara Kingsolver's prodigal Kentucky summers, and she would probably envy Wendell Berry's fidelity to family; but Callie truly understands Tony Morrison's chilling first-line observation in Tar Baby: 'He believed he was safe." Callie Harp is looking for joy, and, against all odds, she believes she can find it. Women everywhere know about that kind of hope.