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Delta Wedding is a 1946 Southern fiction novel by Eudora Welty. Set in 1923, the novel tells of the experiences of the Fairchilds family during a particularly unexceptional year in the Mississippi Delta. The novel's focus on the mundane and social life of the central south, elicited considerable critique from contemporary critics.
Reception
Initial reception of the novel was chequered, with many reviewers challenging the absence of plot. The New York Times praised the characterization of the describes the novel as going "go deep into the motives and moods and compulsions that move her characters" and that "The interplay of family life, with a dozen different people saying and doing a dozen different things all at the same time, is wonderfully handled by Miss Welty so that no detail is lost, every detail had its place in the pattern of the whole."