"[This book] is the remarkably mature and agile debut story collection from James Alan McPherson, one of America's most venerated and most original writers. McPherson's characters--gritty, authentic, and pristinely rendered--give voice to unheard struggles along the dividing lines of race and poverty in subtle, fluid prose that bears no trace of sentimentality, agenda, or apology."--From publisher's description.

With Crabcakes, James Alan McPherson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Elbow Room, marks his reentry into the literary world after a twenty-year absence. McPherson revisits in Crabcakes the years since he first left Georgia as a young man, retracing memories of people and relationships in moments of startling and searing introspection. His meditations on the past - his migration from the deep South of his birth to his travels as a waiter on the...

"A Region Not Home: Reflections from Exile is a collection of McPherson's essays that cover a broad spectrum of his intellectual pursuits."--Jacket.

In this collection of essays, nineteen writers discuss various aspects of parenting their daughters, including birth, marriage, gender differences in child development, mixed racial heritage, divorce, the daughter's first boyfriend, racism, depression, the Recovered Memory movement and false allegations of sexual abuse, foreign adoption, and more.