uscpress.com - Fiction & Folklore https://uscpress.com/ One Good Mama Bone https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409780/One-Good-Mama-Bone
A novel of courageous parental love and the instructive, healing bonds that form between humans and animals

Set in early 1950s rural South Carolina, One Good Mama Bone chronicles Sarah…]]>
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The Ex-suicide https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409819/The-Ex-suicide
A high-society Southern satire about an heir's battle with his domineering mother, society's expectations, and his own mental health

The Ex-Suicide, Katherine Clark's fourth Mountain Br…]]>
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F Troop and Other Citadel Stories https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409816/F-Troop-and-Other-Citadel-Stories
Short stories about character-building experiences at the storied military academy in the 1960s

From its founding in 1842 the Citadel has been steeped in tradition. There have been chan…]]>
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The Lost Woods https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409814/The-Lost-Woods
A collection that follows the lives of two families who own land and hunt in rural South Carolina

The Lost Woods is a collection of fifteen short stories, most of them set in and around…]]>
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Raney https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409811/Raney
A new edition of Edgerton's first novel, an uproarious Southern story of love, music, and heartache

Clyde Edgerton's Raney is the comic love story of a marriage between Raney, a small-t…]]>
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The Floatplane Notebooks https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409808/The-Floatplane-Notebooks
A multigenerational story of familial secrets of love and loss through war and peace in the rural South

The Copeland family of Listre, North Carolina, gathers every May to clean up the…]]>
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Familiar Ground https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409742/Familiar-Ground
A story of confronting loss and the guilt that must yield to achieve any measure of self-forgiveness

A novel of homecoming, loss, and the power of story, Familiar Ground follows the ret…]]>
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A Question of Mercy https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409739/A-Question-of-Mercy
A cross-country odyssey that examines the blurred line between what is legal and what is right

Adam Finney, a young man who is mentally disabled, faces sterilization and lobotomy in a s…]]>
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The Harvard Bride https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409741/The-Harvard-Bride
A social satire and a richly nuanced love story of Southern newlyweds who settle in privileged Mountain Brook

Katherine Clark's The Harvard Bride begins with the lavish Mountain Brook w…]]>
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Cakewalk https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409821/Cakewalk
First published in 1982, Cakewalk was the first short story collection by iconic Southern writer Lee Smith. Comic and observant, Smith's fourteen tales in Cakewalk introduce readers to a host…]]>
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