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Her Own Place traces the life and times of Mae Lee Barnes, an African American woman from rural South Carolina. The novel begins with Mae Lee's life as a teenager in the 1940s and follows her…]]> Fri, 15 Nov 2024 05:43:47 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891097/Why-Dogs-Chase-Cars
Accomplished South Carolina storyteller George Singleton has been called "the unchallenged king of the comic southern short story" by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "a breakthrough writer y…]]> Fri, 15 Nov 2024 05:43:47 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891152/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…]]> Fri, 15 Nov 2024 05:43:47 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891195/The-Night-the-New-Jesus-Fell-to-Earth
The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth was originally released in 1994 and was the first published book from acclaimed writer Ron Rash. This twentieth anniversary edition takes us back to where…]]> Fri, 15 Nov 2024 05:43:47 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891214/The-Hard-to-Catch-Mercy
From lowcountry writer William Baldwin comes a new edition of his 1993 Lillian Smith Award-winning novel, The Hard to Catch Mercy. Including a new introduction by the author, this Southern Rev…]]> Fri, 15 Nov 2024 05:43:47 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891254/Walk-Me-to-the-Distance
Vietnam veteran David Larson can't go home again. Instead the Georgia native wanders westward into the desolate landscape of Slut's Hole, Wyoming, and seeks to integrate himself amid a hardscr…]]> Fri, 15 Nov 2024 05:43:47 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891307/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…]]> Fri, 15 Nov 2024 05:43:47 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891325/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…]]> Fri, 15 Nov 2024 05:43:47 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891334/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…]]> Fri, 15 Nov 2024 05:43:47 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891371/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…]]> Fri, 15 Nov 2024 05:43:47 -0800