Viscosity

VISCOSITY is the story of a young Southern Appalachian woman who is trying to escape a childhood and youth spent in a primitive family presided over by a ne'er-do- well father. She seeks a name change and insinuates herself into the life of a carpet merchant who marries her. She gains access to young "society" matrons, one of whom becomes enamored of a televangelist who is trying to reform. Change, if not reform, is what the book is about: an attempt to crystallize the flexibility of woman to conquer her environment.