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The Relevant Strangeness of “The Flat Woman: A Novel”

By: Lauren Carpenter March 21, 2025March 20, 2025

ReviewsFiction, The Flat Woman: A Novel, University of Alabama Press, Vanessa SaundersLeave a Comment

Venessa Saunders’ “The Flat Woman” treads the line between reality and absurdity.

Generational Horrors Faced Head-on in “Unloose My Heart”

By: Katharine Armbrester January 25, 2023January 18, 2023

ReviewsMarcia Edwina Herman-Giddens, Nonfiction, University of Alabama Press, Unloose My Heart: A Personal Reckoning with the Twisted Roots of My Southern Family TreeLeave a Comment

Marcia Edwina Herman-Giddens recounts her traumatizing childhood at the hands of a racist, abusive mother during the civil rights movement.

“Smothered and Covered” Sheds New Light on a Southern Staple

By: Rachel Lutwick-Deaner December 9, 2022December 8, 2022

ReviewsNonfiction, Review, Smothered and Covered, Ty Matejowsky, University of Alabama Press1 Comment

A review of Ty Matejowsky’s “Smothered and Covered: Waffle House and the Southern Imaginary.”