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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, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534367/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, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534422/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, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534468/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, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534488/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, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534528/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, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534597/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, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534606/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, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534643/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, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534645/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…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700