Pam Durban
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In The Tree of Forgetfulness, writer Pam Durban, winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award, continues her exploration of southern history and memory. This mesmerizing and disquieting novel recovers the largely untold story of a brutal Jim Crow—era triple lynching in Aiken County, South Carolina. Through the interweaving of several characters' voices, Durban produces a complex narrative in which each section reveals a different facet of the event.
...2) So far back
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixty-year-old Louisa Hilliard-the last descendent of one of Charleston's oldest and most prominent families - is caring for her ailing mother. An upright, unmarried spinster, Louisa has spent her life looking after others. In the aftermath of a hurricane that turns her life upside down, she finds a battered diary kept by one of her ancestors. The journal recounts the story of Diana, a 19th-century slave who worked for the Hilliards, but sought to...
Author
Language
English
Description
In Three Little Love Stories, accomplished storyteller Pam Durban introduces us to a trio of women who have known love, hurt, and the oftentimes narrow distance between the two. Riddle Me This finds a woman freed from a dangerous marriage still able to recall with wonder and fondness her first encounter with her ex. In All Hallows Eve readers meet a couple stripped of costumes to reveal their vulnerable pasts in a moment of sheltering embrace. Little...
Author
Language
English
Description
The stories in this volume explore the myriad ways people lose, find, and hold on to one another. When all else fails her characters-science, religion, family, self-the powerful act of storytelling keeps their broken lives together. Each story in this rewarding and multifaceted collection introduces people who yearn for better lives and find themselves entangled in the hopes and dreams that heal and bind us all.
The title story-chosen by John Updike...
Author
Publisher
Scribner's
Pub. Date
©1993.
Language
English
Description
Like the town they live in, Timmons, South Carolina, the Vesses are a peaceful model family. John Vess, attorney and pillar of the community, and Louise, his devoted wife, have conducted their lives seamlessly in a house that has belonged to the Vesses for generations. Now young, recently widowed Annie Vess has come home to comfort her mother after the shocking insult of he father's sudden death. But things are not the way Annie left them; Timmons...