Books like Round up by Ring Lardner

A collection of short stories by George Saunders, featuring unforgettable characters and Saunders’s signature blend of exuberant prose, deep humanity, and stylistic innovation.

A collection of short stories by Tobias Wolff that explores American themes and manners.

A collection of 26 short stories featuring soldiers and civilians from the American Civil War era.

A collection of short stories by Irwin Shaw, spanning five decades of writing.

A collection of short stories by Margaret Atwood exploring themes of loss, regret, and the human heart's interior landscapes.

The South - within its diversity of voices and experiences lies "a shared legacy: the act of speech - of stories handed down in which a distinctive language is honored, a language rich in Biblical and regional contexts; the love of place where individuals, relationships, and family histories not only matter but buttress everyday life. Both are part of that rarest and most indispensable groundspring of literature, memory. The memory of being 'Downhome.'". Susie Mee has gathered a wealth of short fiction by southern women who - from their various backgrounds, from their different eras - draw on that shared legacy she describes in her introduction. That memory of "downhome," whether it is used lovingly or ironically, echoes throughout the seven sections here, which range from Growing Up to Kinfolk and Courtship to Passing On, and in the words of these special authors.