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Danielle Metal sweeps us from the Manhattan courtroom for the Deep-South in her strong new novel—at when a behind-closed-doors check out the center of the household and an account of crime and abuse. SOUTHERN LAMPS Eleven years have passed since Alexa Hamilton quit the South behind, running the cruelty of his notable Charleston household and the discomfort of her ex-husband’s infidelity. Today an associate D.A. in Ny, Alexa has finally set her demons to rest, raising her child alone and creating a name for himself as a high prosecutor dealing with a few of the city’s hardest circumstances.