Books like The Robber Bridegroom
On the old Natchez Trace a planter's daughter is courted by a gentleman bandit, in a Mississippi fairy tale that crosses the Brothers Grimm with frontier legend.
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The Ponder Heart
Edna Earle Ponder, who runs the hotel in Clay, Mississippi, talks a stranger's ear off about her generous, childlike Uncle Daniel, his marriages and the trial that has the whole town watching.
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
All four of Welty's story collections and a few uncollected pieces, from 'Why I Live at the P.O.' and 'A Worn Path' to the linked Morgana tales of The Golden Apples.
Weetzie Bat
Weetzie Bat, a punk teenager in 1980s Los Angeles, makes a family with her gay best friend Dirk, his boyfriend Duck, a man she calls My Secret Agent Lover Man and the wishes a genie grants her.
The Grass Harp
An orphaned boy, his gentle elderly cousin Dolly and her friend Catherine move into a treehouse to escape Dolly's domineering sister, and the town turns out to bring them down.
The Hamlet
Flem Snopes, son of a barn-burning tenant farmer, takes a job clerking in Will Varner's store at Frenchman's Bend, and his family begins to take over the hamlet.
Airships
Short stories about Southern men in love and at war, from Jeb Stuart's cavalry to Vietnam, written in sentences that swing from tenderness to violence without warning.
The Ballad of the Sad Café
In a dreary Southern mill town the formidable Miss Amelia Evans opens a café after a hunchbacked stranger turns up claiming to be her cousin, until her ex-husband comes home from prison.
Still Life with Woodpecker
Princess Leigh-Cheri, an exiled royal and environmentalist, falls for Bernard Mickey Wrangle, an outlaw bomber known as the Woodpecker, in a love story built out of dynamite, pyramids, a pack of Camels and the moon.
The Penelopiad
Speaking from the underworld, Penelope gives her own account of waiting twenty years for Odysseus, and the chorus of twelve maids he hanged on his return has its say too.
Boy, Snow, Bird
In 1953 Boy Novak flees her father in New York for a small Massachusetts town and marries a widower with a lovely daughter, Snow, until the birth of her own daughter reveals what his family has been passing as.
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
Bender's first collection of short, strange fables, among them a man whose lover is going through reverse evolution and a girl with a hand made of fire.
Train Dreams
Robert Grainier, a day labourer who helps build the railroads and bridges of the Idaho panhandle in the early twentieth century, loses his family to a wildfire and lives on alone at the edge of a changing West.