Can't Quit You, Baby (Contemporary American Fiction)
10 best books like Can't Quit You, Baby (Contemporary American Fiction) (Ellen Douglas): Kind of Kin, Flags in the Dust, Daughters of the Dust: The Making of an African American Woman's Film, Noah's Wife, Killer Diller, Dessa Rose, Brighten the Corner Where You Are, Return to Oakpine, News of the Spirit, The Half-Mammals of Dixie
| Author | Rilla Askew |
| ISBN | 0062198793 |
A richly comic yet heartfelt novel about people who want to do right and still do wrong, and people who do right in spite of themselves, as they try to help, protect, and provide for those they love most when a draconian new state law threatens an ordinary American family and throws a close-knit community...
| Author | William Faulkner |
| ISBN | 0394712390 |
Flags in the Dust: William Faulkner's Creation of Yoknapatawpha County
Flags in the Dust, First Ed., Random House, New York, New York (1973)
Flags in the Dust was selected as a group read by members of On the Southern Literary Trail for the month of December, 2014. Special thanks...
| Author | Julie Dash |
| ISBN | 1565840291 |
In the winter of 1992, nearly one hundred years after motion pictures were invented, the first nationally distributed feature by an African American woman was released in the United States. The film tells the story of an African American sea-island family preparing to come to the mainland at the turn...
| Author | T.K. Thorne |
| ISBN | 0983787808 |
ForeWord Review's BOOK OF THE YEAR for Historical Fiction (2009) Noah built an ark, but this story has never been told! Noah's wife is Na'amah, a brilliant young girl with a form of autism (now known as Aspergers). Na'amah wishes only to be a shepherdess on her beloved hills in ancient Turkey--a desire...
| Author | Clyde Edgerton |
| ISBN | 0345410300 |
"Wonderful...Clyde Edgerton tells us another of his lovely tall tales."
LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Listre, North Carolina, is jumping. The Sears twins, Ted and Ned, who run a Baptist college, have opened Nutrition House for overweight Christians. Meanwhile their Project Promise...
| Author | Sherley Anne Williams |
| ISBN | 0688166431 |
“Having this treasure of a book available again for new and more readers is not only necessary, it is imperative.” —Toni Morrison
Expanding the canon of African American literature, alongside Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, Alice Walker’s The Color Purple,...
| Author | Fred Chappell |
| ISBN | 0312050577 |
Brighten The Corner Where You Are is a novel about Joe Robert Kirkman, a farmer who lives in the mountains of North Carolina. Joe Robert teaches. Teaching is something he is forced to do because he needs the money, but it is also something he's good at. Fred Chappell's book is about a single day during which...
| Author | Ron Carlson |
| ISBN | 0670025070 |
From a widely admired author, a poignant novel about homecoming, friendship, growing up, and growing old for fans of Richard Ford and Richard Russo
In this finely wrought portrait of western American life, Ron Carlson takes us to the small town of Oakpine, Wyoming, and into the lives of four...
| Author | Lee Smith |
| ISBN | 0449002268 |
A teenage girl tells the painful and hilarious tale of her philandering father's fall from grace and curious effort to save his marriage. A professional "fiancee" chronicles her Caribbean cruise with three Atlanta developers. A young woman concocts an imaginary brother to impress her friends --...
| Author | George Singleton |
| ISBN | 0156028581 |
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 Southerners who refuse to be pigeonholed, and a South far removed from big-city Atlanta and proper Charleston. As the author says of his characters, "They're...
| Author | Charlie Quimby |
| ISBN | 1937226255 |
Leonard Self has spent a year unwinding his ranch, paying down debts, and fending off the darkening. Just one thing left: taking his wife's ashes to her favorite overlook, where he plans to step off the cliff with her into a stark and beautiful landscape. But Leonard finds he has company on a route that...
A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage
| Author | Marly Youmans |
| ISBN | 0881462713 |
After a death at the White Camellia Orphanage, young Pip Tatnall leaves Lexsy, Georgia to become a road kid, riding the rails east, west, and north. A bright, unusual boy who is disillusioned at a young age, Pip believes that he sees guilt shining in the faces of men wherever he goes. On his picaresque journey,...
| Author | Eudora Welty |
| ISBN | 0878055290 |
Reynolds Price, in the introduction of this luminous book of Eudora Welty's "snapshot" photographs, quotes her as revealing:
"...my wish, indeed my continuing passion, would be not to point the finger in judgment but to part a curtain, that invisible shadow that falls between people, the...
| Author | Henry Wiencek |
| ISBN | 0312253931 |
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
The Hairstons is the extraordinary story of the largest family in America, the Hairston clan. With several thousand black and white members, the Hairstons share a complex and compelling history: divided in the time of slavery, they have come...
Michigan State University Press is proud to announce the re-release of Harriette Simpson Arnow's 1949 novel Hunter's Horn, a work that Joyce Carol Oates called "our most unpretentious American masterpiece."
In Hunter's Horn, Arnow has written the quintessential account of Kentucky...
| Author | May Sarton |
| ISBN | 0393008320 |
My fourth Sarton novel (after Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing, As We Are Now, and A Reckoning), and probably a joint favorite with A Reckoning. Although it’s from 1961, luckily it doesn’t feel as dated as Mrs. Stevens.
“Sometimes it’s not so easy / To be the teacher’s pet.”...
| Author | Melinda Haynes |
| ISBN | 0743238508 |
Featuring a WSP Reading Group Guide
Purvis, Mississippi, 1974: Willem Fremont has just returned to his childhood hometown to come to grips with his past. He has spent his adult life held tight inside the clenched fist of panic disorder -- the stagnation produced by making too many wrong decisions...
| Author | Janice Holt Giles |
| ISBN | 0813101891 |
In her historical novels about Kentucky, Janice Holt Giles has become known for the integrity with which she handles her material and for the realism with which she writes. In "The Believers," first published in 1957, she continues her series about the settling of Kentucky with a moving story of love...
| Author | J. Robert Lennon |
| ISBN | 1862072485 |
A comedy on the world of comics featuring Tim Mix, a struggling artist. Opportunity knocks when Mix's father dies and Mix is offered to take over the father's successful, syndicated cartoon. Question is will the son match his father's sense of humor, part of the cartoon's popularity being that it pokes...
| Author | Robert Morgan |
| ISBN | 1565123565 |
As the War for Independence wore on into the 1780s, unrest ruled the Carolinas. Settlers who had cleared the land after the Cherokees withdrew were being mustered for battle as British forces pillaged their hard-won farms. Robert Morgan's stunning novel tells a story of two people caught in the chaos...
| Author | Mark Salzman |
| ISBN | 0679735461 |
Iron & Silk, Mark Salzman's bestselling account of his adventures as an English teacher and martial arts student in China, introduced a writer of enormous charm and keen insight into the cultural chasm between East and West. Now Salzman returns to China in his first novel, which follows the adventures...
