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Eli N. Evans
University of North Carolina Press 2005, 392 pages (paperback), $21.95
To read "The Provincials" is to indulge in a lazy, steamy Southern vacation amongst Jewish family members who are, however, very different from your own. Author Eli N. Evans hails from Durham, N. C., in the days before it became the mecca of sophisticated learning it is today.
His family of eight older sisters were brought by their parents to the big city from the small town of Kinston so the girls could meet Duke University students and...