A new edition from the University of Alabama Press
"A remarkable work...tender, excruciating, compelling."
Harper Lee, author of
To Kill a Mockingbird
Judith Hillman Paterson is a native of Montgomery, Alabama. Her memoir, Sweet Mystery, was first published in 1996 by Farrar Strauss & Giroux, and has been re-issued several times, most recently by The University of Alabama Press in 2019.
University of Alabama Press
