Bastard Out of Carolina, nominated for the 1992 National Book Award for fiction, introduced Dorothy Allison as one of the most passionate and gifted writers of her generation. Now, in Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, she takes a probing look at her family's history to give us a lyrical, complex memoir that explores how the gossip of one generation can become legends for the next.
Illustrated with photographs from the author's personal collection, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure tells the story of the Gibson women -- sisters, cousins, daughters, and aunts --...

Ruth Anne 'Bone' Boatwright, an illegitimate young girl, dreams of escaping her Greenville County, South Carolina home, her notorious, hard-living family, and the unwanted attentions of her abusive stepfather, Daddy Glen. A modern literary classic, now available in a twentieth anniversary keepsake edition with a new afterword by the author.