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  • Bibliography:
    8 Books
  • First Book:
    May 1987
  • Latest Book:
    January 2006
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Book List in Order: 8 titles



  • "When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. I would figure out this or that way and run it down through my head until it got easy." So begins the tale of Ellen Foster, the brave and engaging heroine of Kay Gibbons's first novel, which ...



  • A story that traces the bonds between four generations of resourceful Southern women through stories passed from one generation to another. A Cure for Dreams, a richly woven story that traces the bonds between four generations of Southern women throu...



  • A family without men, the Birches live gloriously offbeatlives in the lush, green backwoods of North Carolina.In a sad and singular era, they are unique among womenof their time. For radiant, headstrong Sophia and her shy andbrilliant daughter Margar...



  • SIGHTS UNSEEN is an unforgettable tale of unconditional love---and of a Southern family's desperatesearch for normalcy in the midst of madness. It is the story of Maggie, "the Barnes woman with all the problems"...and Hattie, a child struggling to...



  • Two unforgettable characters, Jack Ernest Stokes, known as Blinking Jack, and his wife, Ruby Pitt Woodrow Stokes, tell the story of their years together. Jack was forty and Ruby only twenty when they were married. For twenty-five years they lived tog...



  • Sprawling in its scope but heartbreakingly exact in its depiction of a family torn apart, On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon is a magnificent novel in the great Southern tradition. In the year 1900--on the afternoon she suspects might be the last ...



  • Autumn 1918. Rumors of peace are spreading across America, but spreading even faster are the first cases of Spanish influenza, whispering of the epidemic to come. Maureen Ross, well past a safe childbearing age, is experiencing a difficult pregnancy....



  • The triumphant return of the New York Times bestselling novel’s orphaned heroine -- “the Southern Holden Caulfield . . . the female Huck Finn” (Bookmarks Magazine).   Ellen Foster, fifteen years old, formidable, and back in ...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Kaye Gibbons has published 8 books.

Kaye Gibbons does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster, was published in January 2006.

The first book by Kaye Gibbons, Ellen Foster, was published in May 1987.

No. Kaye Gibbons does not write books in series.