The classic novel of a Georgia family undone by the Great Depression: “[A] story of force and beauty” (New York Post). Even before the Great Depression struck, Jeeter Lester and his family were desperately poor sharecroppers. But when hard times begin to affect the families that once helped support them, the Lesters slip completely into the abyss. Rather than hold on to each other for support, Jeeter, his wife Ada, and...

The Hungry Tide is a very contemporary story of adventure and unlikely love, identity, and history, set in one of the most fascinating regions on the earth. Off the easternmost coast of India, in the Bay of Bengal, lies the immense labyrinth of tiny islands known as the Sundarbans. For settlers here, life is extremely precarious. Attacks by deadly tigers are common. Unrest and eviction are constant threats. Without warning, at any time, tidal floods...

"The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses."--

The trials of the four Scurvy children of Georgia to find the money to bury their mother who died giving birth to her fifth child. Since the two eldest, Pee-Wee and Buck, are good-for-nothing types and Alamand is a dreamer the task befalls to Loujean, the realist. By the author of Pawpaw Patch.

The ambivalence of fireas evocation of glowing love and furious destructionpermeates this stunning first novel by Mark Childress, a young Southern writer who gives fresh expression to his region's literary preoccupations. A World Made of Fire is set in rural Alabama in the decades before World War I ... Childress has created a wholly believable world. The landscapes are forceful and the characters deeply felt. ... A World Made of Fire probes varieties...