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Thirteen-year-old Jojo, his toddler sister, and their drug-addicted mother drive across Mississippi to collect his white father from Parchman prison, and the ghost of a boy who died there rides home with them.
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Swamplandia!
The teenage daughter of a failing Florida alligator-wrestling theme park family sets off through the Everglades to rescue her sister.
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
In 2016, Finn, a suspended history teacher visiting his dying brother in a New York hospice, ends up on a strange road trip through the South with his ex-girlfriend Lily, who has recently died.
Beloved
In 1873 Ohio, Sethe, who escaped slavery eighteen years earlier, lives with her daughter Denver in a house haunted by the ghost of her baby, until a young woman calling herself Beloved arrives.
Song of Solomon
Milkman Dead, the son of the richest Black family in a Michigan town, travels south in search of hidden gold and finds instead the story of his family and of an ancestor who could fly.
Salvage the Bones
A pregnant fifteen-year-old in rural Mississippi weathers Hurricane Katrina with her brothers, her fighting dogs, and a ferocity that refuses to break.
Men We Reaped
Jesmyn Ward remembers five young Black men from her Mississippi Gulf Coast town, her brother among them, who died in the space of four years, and asks what the country takes from them.
Two-Step Devil
An elderly Alabama prophet who paints apocalyptic visions tries to save a young trafficking victim, and the devil keeps showing up.
Collected Stories of William Faulkner
Forty-two stories, among them A Rose for Emily, That Evening Sun, Barn Burning and Dry September, set mostly in Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County and in the wars.
Sleepwalking Land
During Mozambique's civil war, an old man, Tuahir, and a boy, Muidinga, take shelter in a burnt-out bus, where the boy finds the notebooks of a dead man, Kindzu, and reads them aloud.
The Golden Apples
Linked stories about the inhabitants of Morgana, Mississippi, told across decades and echoing with Irish myth.
Heart-Shaped Box
Ageing rock star Judas Coyne collects grim curiosities, so when an online auction offers a dead man's suit along with his ghost, he buys it, and the ghost that arrives in a heart-shaped box turns out to have a personal reason for coming.
In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead
In New Iberia, Louisiana, Detective Dave Robicheaux is hunting the killer of a young woman when a film crew shooting a Civil War picture nearby turns up the skeleton of a Black man he saw shot in chains decades before.