While I will not include spoilers, it will not surprise readers to learn that Minutes after finishing the last page of The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt. But in the South, we embrace our oddballs and listen to their tales.” Weighed in on Southern storytellers: “Every region has their oddballs, for Of course, other areas of the country and other cultures do too. Maybe.” She hedges a bit there, but we know Southerners do love telling You get it all.” She continues by saying storytelling is “unique to the South And when you live in a small town where you know everybody In Jackson, is good for any writer because we are a nation of talkers, listeners,Īnd storytellers. That ‘relished’ storytelling.” She further explained that “growing up in Mississippi, To go completely off track onto another path only to wander back to the With tidbits thrown in to explain or further enhance the main story. Rarely straightforward, each story ambles on its way These authors tell stories that remind me of family stories and of the McCullers, Margaret Mitchell, Alice Walker, and Kate Chopin come quickly to William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, Carson The story is set inīound, South Carolina, in the present-day with narrator Judith Kratt, 75, harkeningīack to her youth in memory to give readers the complete story. Last List of Miss Judith Kratt by Andrea Bobotis. Me to a book I have found fascinating and can recommend wholeheartedly: The
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