Mark Childress

Georgia Bottoms is known in her small community of Six Points, Alabama, as a beautiful, well-to-do, and devoutly Baptist Southern belle. Nobody realizes that the family fortune has long since disappeared, and a determinedly single woman like Georgia needs an alternative and discreet means of income. None of her six well-heeled lovers knows about the others--until the married preacher decides to confess their affair in front of the whole congregation......

Mark Childress is the author of the New York Times best-seller Crazy in Alabama. Here he again turns his keen literary eye to smalltown Southern living. Yankee transplant Daniel Musgrove can't seem to fit in at his Mississippi high school. When he meets fellow outsider Tim Cousins, things look up. Then the two boys' battles with a local bully escalate into a violent act that rocks the town.

A man who can't pronounce "anonymous" In high office seems rather ominous. We don't have to get all Deuteronomous: Brains and power are rarely synonymous." "I love every word Mark Childress writes, including this new compilation of his great political writing. He is brilliant and hilarious. " - Anne Lamott "You, sir, are a libtard!" - Glenn Beck. New York Times bestselling author Mark Childress was like many liberal Americans...