The novel, which won the Pulitzer Prize for 1992 and was the basis for the film of the same name starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Jessica Lange. A novel that critics have called outstanding, mesmerizing, frightening, truthful and beautiful. This is the story of the family of Larry Cook, the owner of a huge farm of a thousand acres, which became a bone of contention for his three daughters: Ginny, Rose and Caroline. This is a drama balancing between anger and despair, resentment and forgiveness, love and hatred. How many skeletons are kept behind seven locks in the family closets of the wealthy farming Cook family? How many conflicts, smoldering for years and decades, are just waiting for an opportunity to break out into a full-fledged fire? How many sad and shameful secrets may one day come to light? And what will happen when the long-hidden madness of a cruel and domineering father of three adult daughters finally breaks out?