In a courtroom scene in this novel, a delusional man claims that his daughter, who used to sing “just like a little bird,” has been killed. This novel ends with the narrator clinging to shameful memories like a “gleaming obsidian shard” that she safeguards above all others. A two-week game of family Monopoly in this novel ends when a player angrily upends the board upon learning of her sister’s secret marriage. This novel’s narrator uses hemlock to poison jars of sausages meant for her sister. In this novel, an accident with a tractor’s ammonia tank blinds Harold Clark, whose son Jess seduces two married women. Ginny and Rose fall out with their sister Caroline in this novel over plans to incorporate the farm of their sexually abusive father, Larry Cook. For 10 points, name this retelling of King Lear set in Zebulon County, Iowa, by Jane Smiley. ■END■
ANSWER: A Thousand Acres
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