The Half-Mammals of Dixie

About this book

This second collection of short stories by a bright star in Southern fiction showcases a town so tiny it missed the map the gleefully off-the-wall Southerners who refuse to be pigeonholed and a South far removed from big-city Atlanta and proper Charleston. As the author says of his characters "Theyre regular people just trying to get by." Among them: a boy whose reputation is ruined when he appears in a head-lice documentary; a lovelorn father who woos his third-graders teacher with creative show-and-tells; and a former pharmaceuticals salesman who waits for the word of God to tell him what to paint on next the "primitive" canvases he sells for big bucks to an art dealer.