Why I Live at the P.O.
On the Fourth of July, Stella-Rondo comes home to China Grove, Mississippi, with a two-year-old child she insists is adopted and no husband to show, and inside a day she has turned Papa-Daddy, Uncle Rondo and Mama against the daughter who stayed. Sister, who runs the smallest post office in the state, gives her own side of it at length and with total confidence, itemising every grievance down to the electric fan, the beard remark and the flesh-coloured kimono. Eudora Welty said the seed was a woman she once saw ironing at the back of a country post office, and the monologue set the comic voice she used for the next thirty years.
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