Download or read book The Distance from the Heart of Things written by Ashley Warlick and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1997-06-18 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coming home from college to her grandfather's prosperous North Carolina vineyard, Mavis Black takes the measure of the emotional distance she has traveled from the people closest to her heart--the members of her eccentric Southern family. "A marvelous first novel".--"Washington Post".