Product Description: Nebraska Waters is black; Vivian Gold is Jewish. In an Alabama kitchen where, for nearly thirty years, they share cups of coffee, fret over their children, and watch the civil rights movement unfold on the TV screen and out their window, they are like family--almost...read more

Product Description: After twenty years in New York City, a prize-winning writer takesa "long look back" at his hometown of Mobile, Alabama.In Back Home: Journeys through Mobile, Roy Hoffmantells stories--through essays, feature articles, and memoir--of one ofthe South's oldest and most colorful port cities...read more

Product Description: In 1916, on the immigrant blocks of the Southern port city of Mobile, Alabama, a Romanian Jewish shopkeeper, Morris Kleinman, is sweeping his walk in preparation for the Confederate veterans parade about to pass by. "Daddy?" his son asks, "are we Rebels?" "Today?" muses Morris...read more

Product Description: Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4Alabama Afternoons is a collection of portraits of many remarkable Alabamians, famous and obscure, profiled by award-winning journalist and novelist Roy Hoffman. Written as Sunday feature stories for the Mobile Press-Register with additional pieces from the New York Times, Preservation, and Garden & Gun, these profiles preserve the individual stories—and the individual voices within the stories—that help to define one of the most distinctive states in the union...read more

Product Description: The complex friendship between a black housekeeper and her Jewish employer is the focus of this special 30th anniversary edition of Almost Family, Roy Hoffman's prize-winning novel about life in the civil rights era South.Nebraska Waters is black; Vivian Gold is Jewish...read more