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Shirley Ann Grau’s nine stories span the South, from Louisiana’s black bayou waters to Alabama’s red‑clay gullies. Each narrative spotlights ordinary people navigating grave moral dilemmas—an ex‑prisoner entangled in his past, a sinister stranger tearing a community apart, a family hiding poverty beneath genteel pretenses, and a wife acquiescing to a forged will. Grau’s prose remains honest and unsentimental, presenting characters whose brave or tragic choices resonate long after the pages close.
First publish date: 1955
Genre: General Fiction/Short Stories
Authors: Shirley Ann Grau
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