{"covers": [7883926], "key": "/works/OL57651W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL21434A"}}], "title": "The surface of Earth", "subject_places": ["Southern States"], "subjects": ["Fiction", "Fiction in English", "Mayfield family (Fictitious characters)", "Domestic fiction", "Family", "Fiction, family life", "Southern states, fiction", "Families"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "A family saga set in North Caroline and Virginia between 1903 and 1944 depicts three generations of the Kendals and the Mayfields. Sixteen-year-old Eva Kendal elopes with her thirty-two-year-old Latin teacher, Forrest Mayfield. Before long, the suicide of Eva's mother brings Eva and her young son home, where they remain for years."}, "latest_revision": 17, "revision": 17, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-15T21:35:48.749013"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-05-19T22:09:02.521875"}}