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Southern Sin

(2014)
True Stories of the Sultry South and Women Behaving Badly
An anthology of stories edited by

 
 
23 strange-but-true stories of women flirting with perdition... In the steamy South, temptation is as wild and plentiful as kudzu. Whether the sin in question is skinny-dipping or becoming an unlikely porn star, running rum or renting out a room to a pair of exhibitionistic adulterers, in these true stories women defy tradition and forge their own paths through life-often learning unexpected lessons from the experience.

As Dorothy Allison writes in her introduction, "The most dangerous stories are the true ones, the ones we hesitate to tell, the adventures laden with fear or shame or the relentless pull of regret. Some of those are about things that we are secretly deeply proud to have done."

A diverse array of contributors-mothers, daughters, sisters, best friends, fiancees, divorcees, professors, poets, lifeguards-in-training, lapsed Baptists, tipsy debutantes, middle-aged lesbians-lend their voices to this collection. Introspective and abashed, joyous and triumphant (but almost never apologetic), they remind us that sin, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.



Praise for this book

"There’s nobody I’d rather have on my side than a sultry, sinning, Southern woman. Read this book and you’ll understand why." - Chris Offutt


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