Once Mississippi: Nine Stories

Set in Mississippi in the 1950s and ‘60s, these stories reflect a time that was in some ways quite innocent but in other ways troubling and sinister. From the rollicking humor of “The Day Baseball Was Banned at Brice’s Crossroads,” “Ex-Convict,” and "Undercover Agent," to the coming of age experiences in "The Journey Begins" and "Uncle Gillbert," to a young boy’s love for his grandmother in "Mammy," to the treatment of race in “An Inch and a Mile” and “Closer Than a Sister,” to the tragic grief of a father and widower in “The Patched Ceiling,” the stories capture the range of human emotions that are a part of living in any time or place, past or present.