A woman's day-by-day, candid, confessional diary, through which she attempts to understand her marriage and her sexual life, combines truthtelling and fabrication on the way to revelations of shocking realities

Product Description: This story of the modern South, of love denied and love fulfilled, is a powerful account of the potential for violence that underlies this country’s passionate history. Ellen Douglas, a native of Mississippi and a prize-winning novelist of rare distinction, reveals the turbulent changes that rocked the South in the sixties and continue to this day...read more

Product Description: Nat Stonebridge is a thirtyish divorcee who, because of her sexy good looks and incorruptible disregard for convention, has stayed in trouble most of her life. Stranded at home in Philippi, a small town in the Mississippi Delta, after a divorce from her well-to-do husband, she is broke, bored, and unconcerned for anyone except herself...read more

Product Description: Mildred Nungester Wolfe (b. 1912) is among Mississippi's most prominent artists. Her portrait of Eudora Welty hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., and her paintings and sculptures are included in the collections of the Mississippi Museum of Art, Millsaps College, Montgomery Museum of Art, and the Library of Congress...read more

In this collection of essays, the author of A Family's Affairs shows how observing personal and historical events is a writer's calling, remembering her youth, family, and friends, as well as her first-person account of violence on campus at Ole Miss.

In four haunting episodes, the author seeks out the truth about herself, her white Mississippi ancestors, their relationships with African-American Mississippians, and ultimately about their guilt as murderers of helpless slaves. Reprint.

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Two short stories and two novelettes examine the complex relationships between whites and blacks living in the South

Cornelia, white and well-married, and her black maid, Tweet, share tales of joy and sorrow that transcend class and race barriers as they work together in the kitchen and recount crucial episodes in their lives

First published in 1987, an illustrated retelling of twenty tales from world literature, including fairy tales, classical stories, myths, and adventure yarns, is accompanied by twenty-four full-color reproductions of linoleum block prints. UP. (view table of contents)