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978-0-89587-282-1
0-89587-282-X
$10.95 paperback
5 X 7˝
136 pages
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When Here
to Get My Baby Out of Jail was first published in 1983, it was named
the best first novel of the year by USA Today. Set in the tobacco
country of North Carolina in 1937, the story is told through the voice
of Roxy Walston, the 20-year-old daughter of the town undertaker, wife
of a struggling tobacco farmer, and mother of a two-year-old. When Jack
Ruffin, a wanderer looking for work, is sent out to the farm to help
Roxy’s husband, things are set in place that change Roxy’s life
forever.
A new play titled Faith’s Affair, written and directed by Dr.
Jayetta Slawson, is based on Here To Get My Baby Out of Jail. The
debut of the play at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, will
be part of the celebration of March as Women’s History Month.
Praise for Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail:
“With
this absorbing first novel we meet an author richly endowed and sure of
her way. She puts to her use an honest, accurate and selective eye, a
dramatic sense very much alive, and best of all a sensitivity to the
pull and charm and magnetism, even fatality, of human characters whom
life has thrown together in their time and place.”
--Eudora Welty
“A
masterpiece, a jewel, an utterly brilliant piece of work.”
--Los Angeles Times
about
the author
Louise Shivers is writer-in-residence at Augusta State University. She
lives in Augusta, Georgia. |
