Unnamed Parents of Hightower's Mother

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Unnamed Parents of Hightower's Mother
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Unnamed Parents of Hightower's Mother
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Light in August never gives Reverend Hightower's mother a first name, much less a maiden one. But it does tell us that "she was one of many children of a genteel couple who had never got ahead and who seemed to find in the church some substitute for that which lacked upon the dinnertable" (472).