Zwischen ihnen

At seventeen, Edna Akin from Arkansas falls in love with Parker Ford, a country boy with the translucent light blue Ford eyes. They marry and begin a nomadic life in the southern states of the USA - Parker works as a traveling salesman. The 1930s pass by like a long weekend, countless miles, cocktails, hotel rooms: New Orleans, Texarcana, Memphis. They find the security that does not exist in their world, the America of the early Ford novels, together. Then a single late child is born - and everything changes. "Between them" is Richard Ford's most intimate book: a literary memoir about his parents and an atmospheric portrait of life in the USA in the mid-20th century.