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An elderly Alabama prophet who paints apocalyptic visions tries to save a young trafficking victim, and the devil keeps showing up.
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Crooked Plow
Two sisters on a Bahian plantation share a tongue-cutting accident in childhood and grow into opposite lives bound by the land and its spirits.
The Violent Bear It Away
A fourteen-year-old boy raised by a prophetic great-uncle in rural Tennessee is torn between his destiny to baptise a cousin and his atheist uncle's rationalism.
Song Yet Sung
A runaway slave with prophetic visions is hunted across the marshes of Maryland's Eastern Shore in the 1850s.
I Want To Show You More
Linked stories about faith, marriage, and desire in the American South, where Protestant conscience collides with carnal longing.
The Orchard Keeper
A young man in 1930s east Tennessee discovers a dead man's belongings in a decaying orchard, and the mystery draws him into a world of moonshiners and outlaws.
Swamplandia!
The teenage daughter of a failing Florida alligator-wrestling theme park family sets off through the Everglades to rescue her sister.
To a God Unknown
Joseph Wayne leaves his father's Vermont farm for a green valley in California, and comes to believe the great oak beside his new house holds his dead father's spirit.
Fire Sermon
A long-married woman embarks on a spiritual and sexual correspondence with a poet, pulling her faith and marriage towards the edge.
Sing, Unburied, Sing
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.
Other Voices, Other Rooms
Thirteen-year-old Joel Knox is sent to a decaying house in the Deep South to meet the father he has never seen, and is met by a nervous stepmother and a languid cousin who will not say where his father is.
Night Watch
In 1874, twelve-year-old ConaLee and her mother, who has stopped speaking after years of abuse, are brought to the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia by the violent man ConaLee has been made to call Papa, while the fate of her real father, a Union sharpshooter, remains a mystery.
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Ten stories of violence, grace, and the grotesque in the rural South, where moments of divine revelation arrive alongside shotgun blasts and stolen wooden legs.