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One man's death leads his brother into the labyrinth of memory. A piece of land holds the key. A story of family, of broken ties and longstanding grudges, Things in Brown Paper weaves a tale across time that is at once a mystery and a biography of a forgotten era. As Winston pieces together the story of a land steeped in legend, he begins to uncover the bonds that are wrought from blood, and stronger than the iron it carries. Recounting a long history of labor, moonshine, and murder, Irven's second novel is a Southern Gothic about the heights of love and the depths of depravity unfolding over...

Land and Labor, 1865 examines the transition from slavery to free labor during the tumultuous first months after the Civil War. Letters and testimony by the participants--former slaves, former slaveholders, Freedmen's Bureau agents, and others--reveal the connection between developments in workplaces across the South and an intensifying political contest over the meaning of freedom and the terms of national reunification. Essays by the editors place the documents in interpretive context and illuminate the major themes.

In the tense and often violent aftermath of emancipation,...