For the Major is a fascinating look at the lives of the Carrolls in the sweet, sleepy town of Far Edgerley. Excerpt: «Madam Carroll of the Farms, upon a certain evening in May 1868, was sitting in her doorway, her eyes fixed upon the dull red line of a road winding down the mountain opposite. This road was red because it ran through red clay; and a hopelessly sticky road it was, too, at most seasons of the year, as the horses of the Tuloa stage line knew to their cost. But the vehicle now coming through the last fringes of the firs was not a stage, and it was drawn…"
