Walking The Wrong Way Home - 2nd Edition by Mandy Haynes (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A collection of southern stories that will have you rooting for saints, sinners, and everyone in between.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><em>Walking The Wrong Way Home</em> takes you inside the extraordinary lives of ordinary people. Where hidden secrets are brought to light and burned with past regrets in brush piles in the mountains of East Tennessee or used to set fire to the mass produced tall and skinnies taking over East Nashville. Between the pages you'll meet Penny, an eighty-seven year old widow who sleeps in her red shoes, Jimmy, a quiet auto mechanic whose memories are never silent, Jewel a young girl who sees beauty everywhere, even though she's lost almost everything, and Willie, a thirteen-year-old who faces his worst fears only to find out that the truth is scarier than any haint or ghost story he's ever imagined. There's Elma and Roy, a couple who've been married for over forty years. Elma realizes on her sixty-third birthday that it's not too late to live her life, but it takes Roy two weeks to notice. Spanning nearly twenty decades, the struggles and victories these characters face are timeless as they all work towards the same goal. A place to feel safe, a place to call home.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Her lyrical prose, picturesque settings, and vividly drawn characters pull the reader in from the beginning of each story, keeping alive the seeds of hope that she plants as she works the rich soil of southern literary fiction."--Susan Cushman, author of <em>Friends of the Library</em> (short stories) and editor of <em>Southern Writers on Writing</em></p><p>"Mandy Haynes never shies away from the hard truths of rough living. She's casting into the weeds, where silt-dwellers are circled by dragonflies, their brilliant sapphire blues and the lace of their wings darting and emerging, like Haynes' tales, from all six directions, and with redemptive grace." --Suzanne Hudson, prize winning author of 2018's Shoe-Burnin' Season: A Womanifesto (pseudonym R.P. Saffire) and 2019's The Fall of the Nixon Administration, a comic novel</p><p>"Her stories give voice to the humor, sorrow, and sometimes even horror in the lives of people in the small towns and down the dirt roads of the South." <em>Wayne Wood, journalist, author of Watching the Wheels: Cheap irony, righteous indignation and semi-enlightened opinion</em></p><p>"It may be fiction but it's all true. Mandy writes razor-sharp, down-to-the bone southern tales about total strangers that you've known your whole life. She knows us better than we know ourselves. This is the good stuff." <em>Mike Henderson, singer/songwriter, musician</em></p><p>"A great read for all us humans."<em> Caleb Mannan, author of Bust It Like A Mule</em></p><p>"From her mind come people who inspire and infuriate and inform. They'll make you ache and smile and sigh, all at the same time." <em>Peter Cooper, journalist, author, singer-songwriter</em></p><p>"Mandy Haynes is a no-nonsense writer who cuts straight through to the core of what life is about with all of the characters she creates. Every story is filled with an honest, raw, and beautiful dance. Such a treat to read." <em>Chuck Beard, freelance writer, editor, and author, owner of East Side Story</em></p><p>"Mandy Haynes has an amazing voice that reaches right in to your gut. A talent like this is rare, and I look forward to seeing more from her soon." <em>Nadia Bruce-Rawlings, Author of Scars</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><br>
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