Jo Spencer's conventional life is disrupted when she falls in love with the older and more experienced Red Williams

Virginia Suzanne Turner faces difficult times during her pregnancy while her cousin, Cindy, turns to a psychiatrist

Product Description: Ferris Beach is a place where excitement and magic coexist. Or so Mary Katherine "Katie" Burns, the only child of middle-aged Fred and Cleva Burns, believes. Shy and self-conscious, she daydreams about Ferris Beach, where her beautiful cousin, Angela, leads a romantic, mysterious life...read more

A collection of short stories by the author of Ferris Beach presents a cast of female characters who take matters into their own hands. By the author of Tending to Virginia.

Jo Spencer's conventional life is disrupted when she falls in love with the older and more experienced Red Williams

Product Description: "Invigorating . . . Savagely effective . . . Displays the same wit and ironic compassion that gained so many fans for her novels."--The New York Times Book ReviewModern stories for modern times, Crash Diet is at once brilliant and bitter, happy and heartbreaking...read more

The lives and fortunes of the inhabitants of Fulton, North Carolina, intersect at the establishment of Quee Purdy, an energetic, widowed free spirit and tireless entrepreneur, whose specialty is fixing broken hearts and changing lives. Reprint.

Product Description: "A profound picture of the legacies of families, one that will stay in the reader's mind."--The Memphis Commercial AppealVirginia Suzanne Ballard is going home to Saxapaw, North Carolina, to sort things out--and to have the people she loves best help her through a difficult pregnancy...read more

A collection of quirky short stories follows the fortunes of a woman who throws funerals for people before they are dead and a music store employee who cannot accept that vinyl is dead, among others. Reprint.

Product Description: When Jill McCorkle feels a short story coming on, she goes right ahead and "wastes" wonderful ideas instead of hoarding them for a novel. The result is another extraordinary collection of stories and characters. In "It's a Funeral! RSVP," the storyteller is a woman who takes up self-styled "careers" that suit her circumstances...read more

A collection of short stories, including 'Monkeys,' in which a widow holds on to her husband's beloved spider monkey as well as his darkest secrets, takes readers back to the author's fictional hometown of Fulton, North Carolina.

Product Description: An unsolved murder at the Quik Pik propels us into twenty-four hours of rich comedy and fast action in the North Carolina town of Marshboro. Two memorable presences are Granner Weeks, a white widow, and Fannie McNair, a black housekeeper...read more

Young Katie struggles with the conflicting influences of her prim and practical mother, her reckless cousin, and a wild boy who lives in a dilapidated house near Katie's seaside home

Product Description: The foibles of the people in Jill McCorkle’s world are so familiar that we want nothing so much as to watch them walk into―and then get out of―life’s inevitable traps. Here, in her first collection in eight years, McCorkle collects eleven brand-new stories bristling with her characteristic combination of wit and weight...read more

A New York Times Bestseller A #1 Indie Next Pick Life After Life is filled with a sense of wonder at our capacity for self-discovery at any age. And the residents, staff, and neighbors of the Pine Haven retirement center (from twelve-year-old Abby to eighty-five-year-old Sadie) share some of life's most profound discoveries and are some of the most.true-to-life characters that you are ever likely to meet in fiction. Delivered with her trademark wit, Jill McCorkle's constantly surprising novel illuminates the possibilities of second chances, hope, and rediscovering life right up to the very end. She has conjured an entire community that reminds us that grace and magic can ? and do ? appear when we least expect it.

The longest and most expensive journey you will ever make is the one to yourself. Some people never even purchase a ticket. Some only get halfway. Some stand like Moses glimpsing the Promised Land. For some, that’s about as good as getting there.Award-winning author Jill McCorkle takes us on a splendid journey through time and memory in this, her tenth work of fiction. Life After Life is filled with a sense of wonder at our capacity for self-discovery at any age. And the residents, staff, and neighbors of the Pine Haven retirement center (from twelve-year-old Abby to eighty-five-year-old Sadie) share some of life’s most profound discoveries and are some of the most true-to-life characters that you are ever likely to meet in fiction.There’s retired third-grade teacher Sadie Randolph, who has taught every child in town and believes we are all eight years old in our hearts; Stanley Stone, a prominent lawyer, now feigning dementia to escape life with his son; Marge Walker, the town’s self-appointed conveyor of social status, who keeps a scrapbook of every local murder and heinous crime; Rachel Silverman, recently widowed, whose decision to leave her Massachusetts home and settle at Pine Haven is a puzzle to everyone but her; C.J., the pierced and tattooed young mother who runs the beauty shop; and Joanna Lamb, the hospice volunteer who discovers that her path to a good life lies in helping people achieve good deaths. As each character begins to connect with another, the mysteries and consequences of their lives are revealed. What they eventually learn about themselves and one another will profoundly transform them all.Delivered with her trademark wit, Jill McCorkle’s constantly surprising novel illuminates the possibilities of second chances, hope, and rediscovering life right up to the very end. With Life After Life, she has conjured up an entire community that reminds all of us that grace and magic can — and do — appear when we least expect it.