The Golden Apples

This collection of short stories of the Mississippi Delta by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author is "a work of art" (The New York Times Book Review).

Here in Morgana, Mississippi, the young dream of other places; the old can tell you every name on every stone in the cemetery on the town's edge; and cuckolded husbands and love-starved piano teachers share the same paths. It's also where one neighbor has disappeared on the horizon, slipping away into local legend.

Black and white, lonely...