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Small Town America
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle-Stop Café
Fannie Flagg - A 1980s housewife who is flirting with depression has her spirits lifted by stories of two rebellious women who lived in rural Alabama in the 1930s.
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Bridge of Sighs
Richard Russo - The small town of Thomaston, NY and its inhabitants fill this novel that covers several generations of family, friends and neighbors.
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The Grave of God’s Daughter
Brett Ellen Block - This book tells the story of the life and times of a poor immigrant family living in a small mill town on the Allegheny River.
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Going to Bend
Diane Coplin Hammond - Longtime friends work making soup for the town’s new upscale deli in small Hubbard, Oregon.
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When the Finch Rises
Jack Riggs - Two boys living in a southern mill town deal with unbalanced families and an uncertain future.
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A Year and a Day
Leslie Pietrzyk - Tiny Shelby, Iowa is the setting for this story of 15-year-old Alice and the year following her mother’s suicide.
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Moon Tide: a novel
Dawn Clifton Tripp - We get to know artist Eve over 20 years in the early 1900s and her unconventional grandmother Elizabeth and Elizabeth’s foreign servant Maggie, who all live in a coastal Massachusetts town.
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The Coal Tattoo: a novel
Silas House - After being orphaned, sisters Anneth and Easter must overcome their very different temperaments and pull together to survive in rural Kentucky coal country.
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Close Range
Annie Proulx - A collection of stories set in the author’s native Wyoming, including “Brokeback Mountain.”
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We Were the Mulvaneys
Joyce Carol Oates - The youngest child of the Mulvaneys looks back and details the episode which led to the disintegration of their storybook family.
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Your Oasis on Flame Lake
Lorna Landvik - With chapters narrated by various residents of White Falls, Minnesota, this story centers around Dick Lindstrom and ‘Your Oasis on Flame Lake’, the small nightclub he opens in his basement.
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Shadow baby
Alison McGhee - Eleven-year-old Clara longs to learn about missing and deceased family members, but her mother refuses to discuss them with her.
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Plant Life
Pamela Duncan - Moving back to her small southern home town and taking a job in the local mill help Laurel Granger deal with the breakup of her marriage.
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Close to Home
Barbara Hall - The secrets and relationships revealed in her new husband’s small town make things difficult for Lydia and her already shaky marriage.