Marlin Barton

• Sep-2021
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In 2000, as Seth Anderson researches his family history, he discovers an unexpected story and "contained within it lies a larger story that might speak not just to Southern history but beyond it." In the late 1800s in rural Alabama, Melinda Ande...

• Feb-2015
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These stories, all set in nearby towns in the Alabama Black Belt―a swath of dark soil that runs west to east through the central part of the state―explore the history, culture, and human spirit of the people who live there, and those that came be...

• Sep-2011
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• Jul-2005
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This is a superb collection of stories about the fascinating complexities of life in a small community. Marlin Barton is a masterful observer of family relations and the idosyncratic logic that governs human lives. His writing does not call attention...

• Jun-2003
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Author Dabney Stuart best summarizes this debut novel ''as relentless as Euripides, or Faulkner, whose 'As I Lay Dying' is its formal model. Its central preoccupation is the sins (or in more secular terms, 'behavior patterns') of fathers and mothers ...

• Jul-2001
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This collection brings together the author's twelve best stories, all set in the same small Southern community in Alabama. The world of these stories covers five generations of one particular family named Anderson, and the range in time is from 1865 ...