Synopses & Reviews
Review
"Mississippi is the perfect setting for the latest volume in Akashic s long-running noir series . . . The most memorable pieces take the definition of noir beyond the expected: William Boyle s Most Things Haven t Worked Out is reminiscent of the gothic fatalism in Flannery O Connor s stories, while Michael Kardos s Digits, about a writing teacher whose students come to class with fewer and fewer fingers, veers into Shirley Jackson territory." Library Journal
Review
"The big city has no lock on misery in these 16 portraits of dark doings in the Deep South." Kirkus Reviews
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"In these stories, from Biloxi to Hattiesburg, from Jackson to Oxford, the various crimes of the heart or doomed deeds of fractured households are carried out in real Mississippi locales . . . Are a devilishly wrought introduction to writers with a feel for Mississippi who are pursuing lonely, haunting paths of the imagination." Associated Press
Synopsis
"A super collection of dark, sultry, gritty Mississippi stories." --Mississippi Today
"The big city has no lock on misery in these 16 portraits of dark doings in the Deep South." --Kirkus Reviews
Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the geographic area of the book.
Brand-new stories by: Ace Atkins, William Boyle, Megan Abbott, Jack Pendarvis, Dominiqua Dickey, Michael Kardos, Jamie Paige, Jimmy Cajoleas, Chris Offutt, Michael Farris Smith, Andrew Paul, Lee Durkee, Robert Busby, John M. Floyd, RaShell R. Smith-Spears, and Mary Miller.