Jennifers Favorite Southern Fiction
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Secret Keepers
by Mindy Friddle
At age seventy-two, Emma Hanley plans to escape small-town Palmetto, South Carolina, and travel the globe. But when her fickle husband dies in undignified circumstances, …
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The Garden Angel
by Mindy Friddle
Two women, both alienated from mainstream society, improbably connect and help to bring each other back to life in a small, down-at-the-heels Southern town in …
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Serena
by Ron Rash
Penned by an award-winning writer, this Gothic tale of greed, corruption, and revenge is set against the backdrop of the 1930s wilderness and America's burgeoning …
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Saints at the River
by Ron Rash
When a twelve-year-old girl drowns in the Tamassee River and her body is trapped in a deep eddy, the people of the small South Carolina …
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Seek the Living
by Ashley Warlick
Acclaimed for creating young women of passion and spirit, Warlick lends her lyrical southern voice to Joan Patee, who is desperate to start a new …
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The Girl Who Stopped Swimming
by Joshilyn Jackson
Lauren Gray Hawthorne needs to make things pretty, whether she's helping her mother keep family skeletons in the closet or sewing her acclaimed art quilts. …
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Everything That Rises Must Converge
by Flannery O'Connor
Nine stories of the fierceness and struggle of life among white people in the new South.
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The Sweet In-between
by Sheri Reynolds
Desperate for a place to belong with her father in prison and her mother dead, teenager Kenny Lugo finds a less-than-idyllic home with her Aunt …
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Great with Child
by Beth Ann Fennelly
"May be the best book ever to give for a baby shower."—Tampa Tribune Beth Ann Fennelly, writing to a newly pregnant friend, goes beyond the …
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Brief Encounters with Che Guevara
by Ben Fountain
The well-meaning protagonists of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara are caught—to both disastrous and hilarious effect—in the maelstrom of political and social upheaval surrounding them. …
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The Half-Mammals of Dixie
by George Singleton
This second collection of short stories by a bright star in Southern fiction showcases a town so tiny it missed the map, the gleefully off-the-wall …
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Collected Stories
by Carson McCullers
This collection of nineteen stories includes "Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland," "The Haunted Boy," "The Member of the Wedding," "The Ballad of the …