Covington's first novel is a quietly compelling coming-of-age story that takes on politics and religion, the Old South and the New South, families, love, and being able to come home again. Whitney Gaines has always known she was adopted. It's never b...
On the eve of World War II in an Alabama mining town, Keller and Laura prepare for marriage, Laura's father threatens Keller, and Bolivia, a Portuguese woman, is about to give birth to a baby whose paternity remains a mystery. Reprint....
"Covington is a writer of great skill who doesn't waste a word. Her ear for speech is nearly perfect; her scenes come vividly to the mind's eye, and through it all she never loses the thread of any of the themes that occupy her story...
Abraham Kasir has properties scattered across Birmingham, but the ones on Cullom Street hold a special place in his heart. So does his newest tenant, Landon Cooper, a transplant from one of the city’s ritzier suburbs. Landon’s a psychologist m...