Tom and Son Jesus, two 12-year-old boys–one black and one white born the same hour of the same day–are best friends, bound by deep ties and who spend their days dreaming, fishing, and trying to escape...

Aaron Greene is a shy, stay-in-the-background young Jewish boy, the child of shy, stay-in-the-background parents. Only a year out of high school, he has a part-time job as a mailboy in a large Atlanta...

A lyrical and poignant novel from one of America's greatest storytellers, the author of To Dance with the White Dog.On a sunny summer day in 1948, Noah Locke arrives in Bowerstown, a small North Carolina...

In the sleepy town of Tickenaley, Georgia, they call the thirty minutes between day and night Dark Thirty. The memory of daylight lingers, but falling darkness brings with it haze, change and uncertainty....

First published in 1976,The Year the Lights Came On was Terry Kay's debut novel. Revolving around the electrification of rural northeast Georgia shortly after the end of World War II, the novel has become...

In the summer of 1955, Madison Lee "Bobo" Murphy was a waiter at the Catskills' Pine Hill Inn. A rural Southerner, he had never heard the word meshugge until Avrum Feldman -- a retired New York City furrier...