Actress Pauline Terry is so successful in a performance of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya that one critic calls her “the perfect Sonya.” But her life is not what she expected when she left Texas for Broadway. She swims in a fish tank in a Ne...
A compelling portrait of the disintegration of the members of the Caldwell family, who have retreated to a horse farm from the city rat-race and their painful struggle to confront the problematic relationships they share...
Thirty years after leaving Eunola, Mississippi, to pursue her dreams of becoming a dancer, Leland Standard returns with her son, and a dinner party given in her honor brings to light the secrets, desires, and life stories of the guests...
One mother's son is killed in a tragic accident; another's daughter murders two people in a wild rage. From these bitter facts, Beverly Lowry--the first child's mother and an acclaimed novelist--has fashioned a memoir in which the objectivity of true...
The stunning true story of a murder that rocked the Mississippi Delta and forever shaped one author’s life and perception of home.“Mix together a bloody murder in a privileged white family, a false accusation against a Black man, a suspic...