Product Description: Finalist for the 2011 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: "Watson's talent is singular, truly awesome; [his stories] are infused with an uncanny beauty."―A. M. Homes In this, his first collection of stories since his celebrated, award-winning Last Days of the Dog-Men, Brad Watson takes us even deeper into the riotous, appalling, and mournful oddity of human beings...read more

Product Description: Finus Bates has loved Birdie Wells since the day he saw her do a cartwheel in the woods in 1916. Later he won her at poker, lost her, then nearly won her again after the mysterious poisoning of her womanizing husband. Does Vish, the old medicine woman down in the ravine, hold the key to Birdie s elusive character? Or does Parnell, the town undertaker, whose unspeakable desires bring lust for life and death together? Or does the secret lie with some other colorful old-timer in Mercury, Mississippi, not such a small town anymore? A potent cocktail of Southern gothic and classical mythology, this is a novel only Brad Watson could have written...read more

Having won and lost the woman he has loved since seeing her do a naked cartwheel in 1916, Finus Bates wonders if the colorful characters from their hometown hold the secrets to her elusive character. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

A collection of short stories celebrates the link between dogs and people, exploring the canine component of the human personality while capturing the human qualities of loyalty and freedom exhibited by dogs. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

A collection of short stories celebrates the link between dogs and people, exploring the canine component of the human personality while capturing the human qualities of loyalty and freedom exhibited by dogs. Reprint. NYT.