Fiction. Short Stories. Winner of Tartt First Fiction Award. Drawing heavily on the author's experiences growing up in Alabama, NOBODY KNOWS HOW IT GOT THIS GOOD explores themes of racial injustice, class, the Civil Rights Movement, environmental ca...
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Fiction. Looking like Elvis and sounding like Elvis are not enough for tribute artist Doyle Brisendine. Deep in his heart, Doyle wants to be Elvis. After performing in front of a wildly enthusiastic group of seniors, he realizes the absurdity of his...
Fiction. When the battered body of a university administrator is discovered in his office, the Chancellor, fearing scandal, appoints Robert Dory, a wealthy donor, to conduct an internal investigation. Cory, who is at work on a study of the mystery n...
Fiction. Women's Studies. A spirited dive into power and sexual politics narrated by a fierce (and funny) female chorus, MISS JANE: THE LOST YEARS chronicles farm girl Jane's entanglement with Prof P, serial bedder of undergrads, and education in al...
Fiction. College administrators coerce resident novelist Brasfield Finch to lure the renowned author of To Lynch a Wild Duck on campus as keynote speaker. Are writers jealous? Is Paris in France? Lily Putnam is about to find out that both are equall...
Fiction. Women's Studies. Abigail Stewart returns to her childhood home in Coastal Alabama. Her need to embrace her once rejected Southern heritage is equally weighed by her desire to unearth the mysteries surrounding her dark and dangerous childhoo...
Fiction. Winner of the Tartt First Fiction Award. TALES FROM WEBSTER'S uses a simple premise: Take a dictionary, choose a word, then faithfully follow each sequential word to construct a narrative, employing no more than fifty words per sequential e...
Fiction. Hope comes as a hopscotch board on the sidewalk entrance of a hospital in Greensboro. Despite efforts to remove the board, it re-appears until physicians, hospital employees, and patients, including Emily, an 8-year-old fighting cancer, and...
Fiction. When James Ward, a high-school freshman living in Queens, meets Cornelia Parsons he gains entry into a very old, very secretive, and to him very attractive world. Cornelia and her enigmatic guardian Miss Widdershins belong to a confederatio...
Fiction. Women's Studies. BELLES' LETTERS 2 affords a variety of fiction being written by Alabama women. A number of stories are love stories—first loves, lost loves, strange loves, from transient, feckless, grotesque, even abusive, to permanent and...
Fiction. Five teenagers attempt to swim the East River from the Bronx to Queens. One boy drowns and the body of the only girl is never found. The survivors vow silence. Five years later, they find themselves at the mercy of the drowned boy's brother...
Fiction. Chaos will surely ensue when Judith Owen allows her first husband, a jobless jokester of a salesman, to move into her coastal Georgia backyard "condo" thirty years after she divorced him. Married six times each, they argue over what advice ...
Fiction. ROBERT WALKER is homeless. He awakes one morning in his box to find half his face paralyzed. In anguish, he walks to mimic normality. He also walks because walking for him is life. Eventually, in opposition to his dedication to desired anon...
Fiction. Dead birds are falling out of the sky and Maurice Delahoussaye suspects the air in New Orleans may be unsafe. The Department of Wildlife and Fisheries claims the birds were poisoned, while meteorologists suggest they were killed by a sudden...
Fiction. AS GOD LOOKED ON is a dark comedic narrative with threads that begin on a bus ride to Daytona and along a mountainside in southern Mexico: one young woman running from a murder and away from her young son; a young Mexican boy and his aunt h...