“Yep, that’s that Yazoo clay.”…… A Southerner’s simple explanation of the common destruction caused by the continual movement of Mississippi’s soil. If you weren’t from ‘these parts’ and did not understand why a house leaned or a pool held no water, you might also have difficulty with Eudora Wel...
3.5/5This is less a review than a running collection of my thoughts as recorded in an experimental thread for "The Southern Literary Trail" group.Part ILaurel seems like she's got a lot to learn about her father and perhaps mother. I'm wondering whether Fay will be the conduit for that learning. ...
Based on a Brothers Grimm fairy tale of the same name, the novella evinces masterful use of narrative compression which gives it the ring of parable. Set before the American Revolution, Clement, a Southern planter who has done quite well for himself, returns home from selling his tobacco to the B...
Rating: 3.75* of fiveThe Publisher Says: A vivid and charming portrait of a large southern family, the Fairchilds, who live on a plantation in the Mississippi delta. The story, set in 1923, is exquisitely woven from the ordinary events of family life, centered around the visit of a young relative...
Not that she said as much to a soul: she was tongue-tied when it came to words. She left a note written in a pencil tablet on the kitchen table, and when Narciss went out to cut up the chicken, she found it. She carried it to Uncle Daniel in the barn, and Uncle Daniel read it to her out loud. The...
He came in his dream and stood just outside the door of her room, his little chin that was like a chicken's clean breastbone tilting upwards. "It has come," the old man said, and he made a complaint of it. Jenny in her bed lay still, waking more still than in the sleep of a moment before. "The ri...
Nevertheless, it is this lowlier angel that concerns us here. There have been signs that she has been rather neglected of late; maybe she could do with a little petitioning. What place has place in fiction? It might be thought so modest a one that it can be taken for granted: the location of a no...