Gail Godwin - Flora

Stephen Usery interviews National Book Award finalist Gail Godwin about her thirteenth novel, Flora. Flora is the story of ten year-old Helen Anstruther and her 22 year-old cousin Flora who spend the summer of 1945 in a run-down grand home on top of a hill in western North Carolina. Helen's father is helping the war effort over in Oak Ridge, TN, while Flora has come up from Alabama to stay with her.