Beth Ann Fennelly

"Morning: bought a bag of frozen peas to numb my husband's sore testicles after his vasectomy. Evening: added thawed peas to our carbonara."--"Married Love, IV"

52 Micro-memoirs

Heating & Cooling

Tom Franklin

In 1927, as the Mississippi river threatens to burst its banks and engulf all in its path, two federal revenue agents investigate the disappearance of two fellow agents on the trail of a local bootlegger and make a discovery that pits them against a saboteur, forcing them to make desperate choices. 100,000 first printing.

A Novel

The Tilted World

A collection of letters written by the mother of a toddler to a pregnant friend explores such topics as the childbirth experience, the identity shift that occurs when a woman enters motherhood, and the ambivalent emotions experienced by mothers when their babies start experiencing independence. Reprint.

Letters to a Young Mother

Great with Child

Dorothy Allison

Lee Gutkind

Features twenty-three true stories of women in the South defying tradition and flirting with sin, including contributions from an array of individuals, including divorcees, professors, lifeguards-in-training, debutantes, and lapsed Baptists.

True Stories of the Sultry South and Women Behaving Badly

Southern Sin

A new, genre-defying volume that explores family, marriage, motherhood, place, and coming of age with singular wit and emotional clarity.

Micro-Memoirs

The Irish Goodbye

William Gay

Suzanne Kingsbury

A short story collection highlighting the Blue Moon Caf? series veterans. Edited by Tom Franklin, the acclaimed author of Hell at the Breach, and the endlessly talented poet Beth Ann Fennelly. As each Blue Moon volume includes new voices, the idea of loosing such enormous amounts of talent and stories going untold was too much to bear. Alumni Grill keeps a slew of southern talent from slipping out the Caf?'s back door and in front of fans.

Anthology of Southern Writers

The Alumni Grill

A Different Kind of Hunger

23 strange-but-true stories of women flirting with perdition... In the steamy South, temptation is as wild and plentiful as kudzu. Whether the sin in question is skinny-dipping or becoming an unlikely porn star, running rum or renting out a room to a pair of exhibitionistic adulterers, in these true stories women defy tradition and forge their own paths through life—often learning unexpected lessons from the experience. As Dorothy Allison writes in her introduction, “The most dangerous stories are the true ones, the ones we hesitate to tell, the adventures laden with fear or shame or the relentless pull of regret. Some of those are about things that we are secretly deeply proud to have done.” A diverse array of contributors—mothers, daughters, sisters, best friends, fiancées, divorcees, professors, poets, lifeguards-in-training, lapsed Baptists, tipsy debutantes, middle-aged lesbians—lend their voices to this collection. Introspective and abashed, joyous and triumphant (but almost never apologetic), they remind us that sin, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

1927, im Süden der USA. Es regnet seit Tagen, und der mächtige Mississippi droht über die Ufer zu treten, als die Prohibitionsagenten Ingersoll und Johnson die kleine Ortschaft Hobnob erreichen. Sie sind auf der Suche nach zwei verschwundenen Kollegen, die einem örtlichen Schwarzbrenner auf der Spur waren. Am Schauplatz eines Verbrechens finden sie ein schreiendes Baby, das Ingersoll nicht zurücklassen will. Bei Dixie Clay Holliver, einer jungen Frau aus dem Ort, findet er ein Zuhause für das Kind. Die beiden mögen sich auf Anhieb, doch Ingersoll weiß nicht, dass Dixie Clay die beste Schwarzbrennerin des Landes ist und etwas mit den vermissten Ermittlern zu tun haben könnte.

Beth Ann Fennelly

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