Good Country People and Other Stories Southeast Asian Cooking shortlisted for the 1992 Booker

shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize

firefly squid

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and heartbroken—at once utterly impossible and tremendously sympathetic

Good Country People and Other Stories Southeast Asian Cooking shortlisted for the 1992 BookerThe American South. A turbulent world, fraught with the Civil Rights struggle and toxic religious tensions. Against the backdrop of mountainous sunsets and backwater shacks, deserted highways and small town gas stations, people forge their own lives. We encounter murderers, escaped convicts, dysfunctional families, conmen, fanatics, farmhands, Bible salesmen, troubled children, gangsters, hypocrites, misfits and outcasts. These are characters marked