Anjali Enjeti considers her identity in an evolving region in Southbound
…to any race, culture, religion, or ethnicity. We are aberrations or unicorns, rumors whispered among nosey neighbors.” In 20 essays that combine the literary tools of memoir, reportage, poetry, and…
Natalie Standiford’s Astrid Sees All charts the course of a young friendship in early 1980s New York City
…she loved you, you couldn’t shake her. But you couldn’t earn your way into her heart either. So if she loved you, it made you a kind of royalty.” Carmen…
J. Nicole Jones conjures her South Carolina family’s storied past in Low Country
…of her family’s lore with the legend-heavy history of her South Carolina homeland, never resting too comfortably from any fixed position. Animated by equal measures of rigorous self-awareness and ample…
Margaret Renkl weaves personal and natural history in Late Migrations
…learned to read.” The natural histories complement and enlarge the personal ones. Renkl’s wry appraisal of both human and nonhuman animals is affectionate yet unsentimental. From the Nashville suburbs where…
In The Caring Class, Richard Schweid examines the world of home health aides
…injury, and safe from various household dangers, all for minimum wage pay. Despite these demands, flexible scheduling and relatively accessible (sometimes minimal) training make becoming an HHA attractive to many…
Larry D. Thacker’s fictional Labor County brims with the weird and wondrous
…young narrator’s “Papaw,” whose mind may be going but whose leatherworking skills are fully intact. He makes knife sheaths, belts, and purses … His specialty, however, was toddler-sized miniature saddles…
