Family Bible by Melissa J. Delbridge

A memoir of growing up in 1960s Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in a 'stew of religion and sex.' Melissa Delbridge introduces her hard-drinking, deer-hunting, woman-charming father, her mother who 'invented road rage before 1960,' and the rest of her family, from her father's suspicious 'hunting trips' to her mother's midnight moves across town, while coming to terms with her own sexuality on the banks of the river. Funny and wrenching by turns, it is a Southern Gothic family history.