One Mississippi
10 best books like One Mississippi (Mark Childress): The Last Girls, Taps, Before Women Had Wings, Between, Georgia, Snow Bound, Crazy Ladies, The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc, Between the Tides, Bound South, Driving Sideways
| Author | Lee Smith |
| ISBN | 0345464958 |
Revered for her powerful female characters, Lee Smith tells a perceptive story of how college pals who grew up in an era when they were still called "girls" have negotiated life as women. Harriet Holding is a hesitant teacher who has never married (she can't explain why, even to herself). Courtney Gray...
| Author | Willie Morris |
| ISBN | 0618219021 |
The final work from one of America's most beloved authors and an instant classic, TAPS takes readers on one last fictional journey to Willie Morris's South and spins a tender, powerful, very American story about the vanishing beauty of a charmed way of life and the fleeting boyhood of a young man coming...
| Author | Connie May Fowler |
| ISBN | 0449911446 |
My name is Avocet Abigail Jackson. But because Mama couldn't find anyone who thought Avocet was a fine name for a child, she called me Bird. Which is okay by me. She named both her children after birds, her logic being that if we were named for something with wings then maybe we'd be able to fly above the shit...
| Author | Joshilyn Jackson |
| ISBN | 0446699454 |
Nonny Frett understands the meaning of the phrase "in between a rock and a hard place" better than any woman alive. She's got two mothers, "one deaf-blind and the other four baby steps from flat crazy." She's got two men: a husband who's easing out the back door; and a best friend, who's laying siege to her...
| Author | Harry Mazer |
| ISBN | 0440961343 |
At fifteen, Tony Laporte is what many people would call a throughly spoiled kid. He gets away with a lot because his parents want him to have all the things they never had. But when they surprise him by refusing to let him keep a stray dog he has found, Tony decides to teach them a lesson by running off in his...
| Author | Michael Lee West |
| ISBN | 0060977744 |
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.
From the author of Mad Girls in Love comes this lively multigenerational tale of six charming, unforgettable Southern women -- a novel of love and laughter, pain and redemption.
Though she was born in Tennessee,...
| Author | Loraine Despres |
| ISBN | 0060505885 |
It's a steamy June afternoon in Louisiana, circa 1956, and Sissy LeBlanc is sitting on her front porch, wondering -- half seriously -- if she could kill herself with aspirins and Coca-Cola. She's been living in stifling old Gentry since the day she was born and trapped in a sham of a marriage to PeeWee LeBlanc...
| Author | Patti Callahan Henry |
| ISBN | 0451221141 |
The scene of a childhood tragedy that forced her family to move, Seaboro, South Carolina, is the last place Catherine Leary wants to see again. But her father's last wish to have his ashes scattered there, and his young colleague's desire to write an article about him, conspire against Catherine. Hoping...
| Author | Susan Rebecca White |
| ISBN | 1416558675 |
From the award winning author of A Soft Place to Land and A Place at the Table comes a tale of three vibrant and unique Southern women—Louise, Caroline, and Missy—as their lives intersect in unexpected and extraordinary ways.
From the outside, Louise Parker seems like a proper Southern...
| Author | Jess Riley |
| ISBN | 0345501101 |
Leigh Fielding wants a life. Seriously. Having spent the past five years on dialysis, she has one simple wish: to make it to her thirtieth birthday. Now, thanks to the generosity of the late Larry Resnick and his transplanted kidney, it looks like her wish may come true.
With her newfound vitality...
| Author | Pamela Duncan |
| ISBN | 0385335210 |
In the lush North Carolina foothills, the Moon women have put down roots: matriarch Marvelle Moon, who’s losing her grip on the world after more than eighty years of life; her daughters, Ruth Ann and Cassandra; and Ruth Ann’s nineteen-year-old daughter, Ashley, fresh out of rehab, unmarried,...
| Author | Lynne Bryant |
| ISBN | 0451232283 |
A moving debut novel about female friendship, endurance, and hope in the South.
Roxanne Reeves defines her life by the committees she heads and the social status she cultivates. But she is keeping secrets that make her an outsider in her own town, always in search of acceptance. And when she...
| Author | Denise Hildreth Jones |
| ISBN | 0849944554 |
I'm coming home to prove something..to my city, my mother, and myself.
It is a place known to most as Savannah. It is a place known to me as home. I wish I could tell you it was my love for this city that precipitated my return. But I did not return out of a mere longing for home. I returned because I have...
| Author | Jayne Pupek |
| ISBN | 1565124723 |
For eleven-year-old Ellie Sanders, her father has always been the rock that she could cling to when her mother's emotional troubles became too frightening. But when he comes under the thrall of the pretty teenager who raises vegetables and tomatoes for sale at the general store that he runs, Ellie sees...
Sweet Tea and Jesus Shoes
| Author | Deborah Smith |
| ISBN | 0425183785 |
Six daughters of the South serve up a charming and hilarious collection of original short stories topped with a generous dollop of that most valued of all Southern commodities: good old-fashioned storytelling.
"Poignant and heartwarming...A brilliant compilation of Southern women's...
| Author | Todd Johnson |
| ISBN | 0061579521 |
“Gentle, sensitive...sometimes funny, occasionally sad, and ultimately life-affirming.”
—Winston-Salem Journal
The Sweet By and By is the story of five southern women of different ages and from very different backgrounds whose lives come together in a journey...
Conrad had it pretty good in life -- a Porsche, pretty girls, and a trust fund full of oil money. But now, thanks to a brutal hazing incident at Louisiana State University's Gamma Chi fraternity, Conrad is dead -- a nineteen-year-old spirit suddenly without an earthly body.Make no mistake, the newly...
| Author | Ad Hudler |
| ISBN | 0345451295 |
Welcome to the utterly eccentric world of Selby, Georgia, where the folks sprinkle three things liberally over their daily lives: sugar, religion, and the wicked fun of Southern living.
Margaret Pinaldi is the quiet daughter of a hell-raising abortion-rights advocate who recently died—bequeathing...
| Author | Heather Newton |
| ISBN | 0062001345 |
Newton delivers a stirring debut novel told from the perspectives of four central characters embroiled in a family drama that spans generations and is riddled with defensive secrecy and emotional penury in equal measure.
After the disappearance of Leon Owenby, his younger brother and central...
| Author | Paul Theroux |
| ISBN | 0893406767 |
It always feels like there's something missing from Paul Theroux's fiction, and it's hard to pin down exactly what. He is unparalleled as a travel writer, but his brilliant turns of phrase and breadth of knowledge are somehow cast adrift in his fiction. He can't seem to find an overarching theme or device...
What is it about the South that has inspired so much of America's greatest literature? And why, when we think of Flannery O'Connor or William Faulkner or Harper Lee, do we think of them not just as writers, but as Southern writers? In South Toward Home, Margaret Eby—herself a Southerner—travels...
