Daughters of Muscadine by Monic Ductan

Daughters of Muscadine by Monic DuctanTwo events tie together the nine stories in Monic Ductan's gorgeous debut: the 1920s lynching of Ida Pearl Crawley and the 1980s drowning of a high school basketball player, Lucy Boudreaux. Both forever shape the people and the place of Muscadine, Georgia, in the foothills of Appalachia. The daughters of Muscadine are Black southern women who are, at times, outcasts due to their race and are also estranged from those they love. A remorseful woman

The Boone women's joys and sorrows

• 12 oz (355 ml)

with cover photography by Justin Brown

and Lost Mountain

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Hansel Haywood

Jane Hicks captures contemporary Appalachia in all of its complexities: the world she presents constantly demonstrates how the past and the present (and even the future) mingle unexpectedly

We want to publish work that takes us to that point of not knowing

• Fabric weight: 5

semi-autobiographical work of fiction

And Junia won't ever let her friend down

With What Remains