Told from the perspective of Meg, a precocious thirteen-year-old who is part nymph, part young woman, Little Jordan recounts a series of unusual events - a death, an attempted suicide, a mother's disastrous affair, a young girl's first kiss - that resonate, and finally coalesce, in the reader's mind. Marly Youmans conveys with elegance and economy the unpredictable tragedies and subtle oddities that hover above a small Southern town, one special summer. As you tumble through the smells and sounds of the season - mown hay, wet grass, a search party's flashlights scanning a dark field - you come to realize that this could be your town, an otherwise ordinary town, but one that harbors deep secrets - for even the ordinary teems underneath with strange happenings.