Life and Death in a Small Southern Town: Memories of Shubuta, Mississippi

by Gayle Graham Yates

Book Overview

Gayle Graham Yates's hometown sits on the banks of the Chickasawhay River, boasting the live oak, dogwood, and magnolia trees found throughout southern Mississippi. Like any place, Shubuta (population 650) is inhabited by good people and bad, by virtue and vice. Both a literary memoir and a cultural history, this book chronicles Yates's return to the town in which she first knew goodness and came to recognize immorality. Blending folklore and personal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807129372
• ISBN13: 9780807129371
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.0"