Deep South Books

A shotgun marriage of fact and fiction by one of the most highly regarded writers and teachers of our time

This powerful memoir turns a critical yet loving eye on the sometimes volatile culture of the South and the relationships between southern mothers and daughters.

These beautifully crafted stories depict the changing relationships between black and white southerners, the impact of the civil rights movement, and the emergence of the New South.

Mary Ward Brown is a storyteller in the tradition of such powerful 20th-century writers as William Faulkner, Harper Lee, Flannery O'Connor, and Eudora Welty-writers who have explored and dramatized the tension between the inherited social structure of the South and its contemporary dissolution.

Renowned Alabama writer Helen Norris returns with her first short-story collection in seven years, a collection filled with the delightful and diverse characters her fans have grown to love.

A timely new novel evocative of the biblical story of the beheading of John the Baptist by a major American writer.

This tale of youth and the immutable forces of society arrayed against its innocence and optimism has been called the best football novel in years.

A beautifully narrated novel of time and place, Goodbye to the Buttermilk Sky re-creates a southern summer when the depression and the boll weevil turned hopes to dust. With the extraordinary talent to make the reader see the Ball canning jars on the kitchen table, hear the clicks on the party line, and feel the bittersweet moments of 20-year-old Callie Tatum's first experiences with adult desire, Oliver portrays a young wife’s increasingly dangerous infidelity with cinematic precision and palpable suspense.