THE SOUTHERN CROSS
The sixteen short stories featured in this prize-winning debut collection paint a richly textured vision of the American South. Set in the Gulf Coast over the course of a year torn in half by the arrival of Hurricane Katrina, and filled with humor and fierce honesty, they follow the lives of an assembly of unforgettable characters: an exonerated ex-con who may not be entirely innocent; a rabbit farmer in mourning; a nurse who decides to romance a patient as payback for her husband's infidelity; and an earnest young mariner trying to start a new life with his wife. . . all populating the spirited cities and drowsy parishes in Skip Horack's marvelous portrait of the South.