Her Own Law

By Bert Goolsby

In June, 1943, Delaware Huggins, under-educated and draft-exempt, leaves his Georgia home to seek employment at a shipyard. Enroute to the coast, he meets up with Tweeve Cumbie, a recent widow, who... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0965401871
• ISBN13: 9780965401876
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: C. Tolbert Goolsby, Jr.
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

excellent reading with a mixture of humor and suspense.

If you were born in the South or have had any time to enjoy Southern culture you will certainly enjoy reading this book. A wonderful mixture of old memories, humor, mystery, and suspense. Be prepared to finish this book in one reading after the initial characters have been developed. Goolsby has a real talent that has been hidden too long.

An entertaining Southern story

Her Own Law is the story of Delaware Huggins, a Georgia boy with a knack for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. This knack at different times results in his forced marriage to Tweeve, a bible-quoting steel magnolia, and his arrest for murder. As Tweeve defends him in a Southern courtroom, Delaware experiences first hand Tweeve's theory of "us against them" justice. The book, written in a Deep South vernacular, is an entertaining story that Southerners and those not so blessed at birth will enjoy.

A story of love, loyalty and redemption in the WWII South.

In Bert Goolsby's Her Own Law, an uneducated, bumbling, but innocently appealing young man from Georgia stumbles into an unexpected marriage and an unexpected murder charge as he crosses the rural South in the early 1940's. His wife undertakes to defend him in a trial that provides a highly satisfying mix of surprise and strategy. In addition to the main characters, Delaware Huggins and Tweeve, his strong-minded, Bible-quoting wife, the novel creates other memorable figures, such as Booger Blue and Greasy Pea, two unlovely lovers; Loony Luster; and the Baby Buggy man, a Northern stranger who seeks repentance and finds redemption. The book gives a view of a small Southern town during World War II, with its soldiers, its race and class distinctions, and its 'us' and 'them' ethic. The pace of the book is as rhythmic as its language and the humor is so quick you find yourself laughing before you've even reached the end of the sentence. This is a love story but without a romance, in which the narrative clips along and step by step builds with intensity until an unexpected source saves the day. The smooth, lilting Southern vernacular is a voice to be read or heard and the ending is as smooth as a bowl of ice cream on a sweet-smelling Southern night. This is an excellent story, exquisitely told. Bert Goolsby's other publications include 'Sweet Potato Biscuits and Other Stories' and 'The Box with the Green Bow,' which has been produced also as a Christmas theatre production. Anyone who has lived in the South will recognize in these books as well as in 'Her Own Law' the voice of a true Southern storyteller, a storyteller who gives voice to universal truths.

A story of love, loyalty and redemption in the rural South.

In Bert Goolsby's Her Own Law, an uneducated, bumbling, but innocently appealing young man from Georgia stumbles into an unexpected marriage and an unexpected murder charge as he crosses the rural South in the early 1940's. His wife undertakes to defend him, in a trial that produces a satisfying variety and number of twists and turns. In addition to the main characters, Delaware Huggins, and Tweeve, his strong-minded, Bible-quoting wife, the novel portrays other memorable figures, such as Booger Blue and Greasy Pea, two unlovely lovers; Loony Luster; and the Baby Buggy man, a Northern stranger who seeks repentance and finds redemption. The book gives a view of a small Southern town during World War II, with its soldiers, its race and class distinctions, and its "us" and "them" ethic. The pace of the book is as rhythmic as its language and the humor is so quick you find yourself laughing before you've even reached the end of the sentence. This is a love story but without a romance, in which the narrative clips along and step by step builds with intensity until an unexpected source saves the day. The smooth, lilting Southern vernacular is a voice to be read or heard and the ending is as smooth as a bowl of ice cream on a sweet-smelling Southern night. This is an excellent story, exquisitely told. Bert Goolsby's other publications include "Sweet Potato Biscuits and Other Stories" and "The Box with the Green Bow," which has been produced also as a Christmas theatre production. Anyone who has lived in the South will recognize in these books as well as in "Her Own Law" the voice of a true Southern storyteller, a storyteller who gives voice to universal truths.