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A new edition of Sanders's novel of perseverance, family, and hope in the hardscrabble South

Her Own Place traces the life and times of Mae Lee Barnes, an African American woman from ru…]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2026 06:56:59 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4598019/Why-Dogs-Chase-Cars
A new edition of Singleton's comic tales of coming-of-age in the small-town South

Accomplished South Carolina storyteller George Singleton has been called "the unchallenged king of the…]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2026 06:56:59 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4598074/Cakewalk
A new edition of Smith's comic short stories featuring an array of memorable southern characters

First published in 1982, Cakewalk was the first short story collection by iconic Souther…]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2026 06:56:59 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4598118/The-Night-the-New-Jesus-Fell-to-Earth
Short stories of hardscrabble lives in the Carolina foothills, sharing anew the early fiction from an acclaimed storyteller

The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth was originally released…]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2026 06:56:59 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4598136/The-Hard-to-Catch-Mercy
A Southern Revivals edition of an award-winning coming-of-age story in the post-Civil War South

From lowcountry writer William Baldwin comes a new edition of his 1993 Lillian Smith Awar…]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2026 06:56:59 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4598227/In-the-Land-of-Dreamy-Dreams
A new edition of the author's first published short story collection

In her 1981 collection of stories, In the Land of Dreamy Dreams, Ellen Gilchrist writes about New Orleans as no othe…]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2026 06:56:59 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4598245/Family-Men
A collection of short stories about small-town Southern life along the Mississippi Delta

In this collection of stories award-winning writer Steve Yarbrough effortlessly evokes the speci…]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2026 06:56:59 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4598254/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…]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2026 06:56:59 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4598290/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…]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2026 06:56:59 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4598292/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…]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2026 06:56:59 -0800