Other Voices Other Rooms (1995)

Truman Capotes semiautobiographical first novel about coming of age in the Deep South during the 1930s centers on 13yearold Joel Sansom David Speck who reunites with his estranged father at the familys shabby plantation where he must contend with his fathers feisty mistress and a strange cousin Against this lessthanideal backdrop Joel slowly matures into an upstanding young man