Gritty short stories set in the haze of Baton Rouge, Louisiana
-Headlong, funny, sharply observed, the stories of Red Stick Men are a joy to read. Tim Parrish is a splendid writer with a remarkable literary future.- - Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories
Like Mississippi River humidity, the sweat and the factory smoke of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, pervade Tim Parrish's fiction.
His characters in these nine working-class stories are by no means good-ole-boy cliches. These are blue-collar, urban southerners,...
Gritty short stories set in the haze of Baton Rouge, Louisiana
-Headlong, funny, sharply observed, the stories of Red Stick Men are a joy to...
Fear and What Follows is a riveting, unflinching account of the author's spiral into racist violence during the latter years of desegregation in 1960s and 1970s Baton Rouge. About the memoir, author and editor Michael Griffith writes, -This might be a controversial book, in the best way--controversial because it speaks to real and intractable problems and speaks to them with rare bluntness.-
The narrative of Parrish's descent into fear and irrational behavior begins with bigotry and apocalyptic thinking in his Southern Baptist church. Living a life upon this volatile foundation of...
Fear and What Follows is a riveting, unflinching account of the author's spiral into racist violence during the latter years of desegregatio...
"The Jumper" is an old-fashioned, modern novel both dark and funny. Its central character, Jimmy Strawhorn, grows up on a ranch in West Texas thinking he's an orphan but is summoned to Baton Rouge, where he discovers his past is stranger than he can imagine. Jimmy tries to navigate his urge to jump from high places, his fear of falling in love, and a complex family history full of deceit and racial ambiguity. At the same time, two other eccentric main characters, named Sandra and J. T., deal with dangerous pasts and presents of their own as Jimmy's arrival alters their lives. Winner...
"The Jumper" is an old-fashioned, modern novel both dark and funny. Its central character, Jimmy Strawhorn, grows up on a ranch in West Texas thinking...
Fear and What Follows is a riveting, unflinching account of the author's spiral into racist violence during the latter years of desegregation in 1960s and 1970s Baton Rouge. About the memoir, author and editor Michael Griffith writes, -This might be a controversial book, in the best way--controversial because it speaks to real and intractable problems and speaks to them with rare bluntness.-
The narrative of Parrish's descent into fear and irrational behavior begins with bigotry and apocalyptic thinking in his Southern Baptist church. Living a life upon this volatile foundation of...
Fear and What Follows is a riveting, unflinching account of the author's spiral into racist violence during the latter years of desegregatio...
