A Visitation of Spirits
9 best books like A Visitation of Spirits (Randall Kenan): Bastard Out of Carolina, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories, Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me, Lady Audley's Secret, I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem, Oral History, Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery, Property, Boy with Loaded Gun: A Memoir
| Author | Dorothy Allison |
| ISBN | 0452287057 |
Greenville County, South Carolina, is a wild, lush place that is home to the Boatwright family—a tight-knit clan of rough-hewn, hard-drinking men who shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable women who get married young and age too quickly. At the heart of this story is Ruth Anne Boatwright,...
| Author | Kevin Wilson |
| ISBN | 0061579025 |
Kevin Wilson's characters inhabit a world that moves seamlessly between the real and the imagined, the mundane and the fantastic. "Grand Stand-In" is narrated by an employee of a Nuclear Family Supplemental Provider—a company that supplies "stand-ins" for families with deceased, ill, or just...
Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me
| Author | Adrienne Brodeur |
| ISBN | 1328519031 |
A daughter’s tale of living in the thrall of her magnetic, complicated mother, and the chilling consequences of her complicity.
On a hot July night on Cape Cod when Adrienne was fourteen, her mother, Malabar, woke her at midnight with five simple words that would set the course of both of their...
| Author | Mary Elizabeth Braddon |
| ISBN | 0192835203 |
whatever could be Lady Audley's secret? could it be... murder? miscegenation? malfeasance? misdirected malevolence ending in tears, tragedy, and general tawdriness? an assumed identity? flatulence? that not-so-fresh feeling? bigamy? bigotry? child abuse? child abandonment? une affaire...
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
| Author | Maryse Condé |
| ISBN | 0345384202 |
"Stunning...Maryse Conde's imaginative subversion of historical records forms a critque of contemporary American society and its ingrained racism and sexism." THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE
At the age of seven, Tituba watched as her mother was hanged for daring to wound a plantation owner who...
| Author | Lee Smith |
| ISBN | 0345410289 |
This is a story about five generations of the Cantrell family. They live in Hoot Owl Holler in West Virginia. Southern life in the mountains of Appalachia is the book's story. The first Cantrell came from Ireland. The patriarch fought in the Civil War for the Union, lost a leg and when the remaining stump...
| Author | Leon F. Litwack |
| ISBN | 0394743989 |
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award
Based on hitherto unexamined sources: interviews with ex-slaves, diaries and accounts by former slaveholders, this "rich and admirably written book" (Eugene Genovese, The New York Times Book Review) aims to show how, during the Civil...
Valerie Martin’s Property delivers an eerily mesmerizing inquiry into slavery’s venomous effects on the owner and the owned. The year is 1828, the setting a Louisiana sugar plantation where Manon Gaudet, pretty, bitterly intelligent, and monstrously self-absorbed, seethes under the dominion...
| Author | Lewis Nordan |
| ISBN | 1565121996 |
Lewis Nordan is famous for his special vision of the Mississippi Delta. His characters, for whom the closest-though hopelessly inadequate-description might be "eccentrics," share the stage with swamp elves and midgets living in the backyard. His fiction is unlike anybody else's and is as dark,...
