Jill McCorkle s first novel in seventeen years is alive with the daily triumphs and challenges of the residents and staff of Pine Haven Estates, a retirement facility, which is now home to a good many
The author of Carolina Moon presents a new colleciton of nine short stories that introduces a variety of colorful and unforgettable characters in such tales as "Paradise," "Life Prerecorded," and "It'
An unsolved murder at the Quik Pik propels us into twenty-four hours of rich comedy and fast action in the North Carolina town of Marshboro. Two memorable presences are Granner Weeks, a white widow, a
“Jill McCorkle has long been one of our wryest, warmest, wisest storytellers. In Hieroglyphics, she takes us on through decades, through loss, through redemption, and lands in revelation and grace. As
The staff and residents at Fulton, North Carolina's retirement facility share the realities of their respective lives, from a retired teacher who believes everyone is a third grader at heart, to a pro
McCorkle takes us back to her longtime fictional home town, Fulton, North Carolina, to meet a broad range of characters that have much in common with the so-called lesser species. The voices with whi
;Hieroglyphicsis a novel that tugs at the deepest places of the human soula beautiful, heart-piercing meditation on life and death and the marks we leave on this world. It is the work of a wonderful w
The foibles of the people in Jill McCorkle's world are so familiar that we want nothing so much as to watch them walk into-and then get out of-life's inevitable traps. Here, in her first collection in
Ferris Beach is a place where excitement and magic coexist. Or so Mary Katherine "Katie" Burns, the only child of middle-aged Fred and Cleva Burns, believes. Shy and self-conscious, she daydreams abou
This is a novel about an almost perfect girl and how she temporarily comes undone. Growing up in her small North Carolina hometown, Jo Spencer was a girl who knew what to be and how to be it - straig
Energetic, voluptuous, and well past sixty, Queen Mary Purdy opens a smoke-enders clinic in the resort town of Fulton, North Carolina. Her unorthodox approach (aroma therapy? Massage?) provides much g
Adam Finney, a young man who is mentally disabled, faces sterilization and lobotomy in a state-supported asylum. When he is found dead in the French Broad River of rural North Carolina, his teenaged s
