Concord, Virginia: A Southern Town in Eleven Stories

"If a Eudora Welty Morgana story married a García Márquez Macondo tale, their offspring would be a story by Peter Neofotis." —Mary Gordon, New York Times–bestselling author

"In the places set between folds in the Earth, voices echo against mountains . . ."

So begins the story of Concord, Virginia, one of those places set between folds in the Earth. It's a place like almost any other Southern town, filled with self-righteous preachers, descendants of slaves, upstanding town leaders, and the la...