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Book Review of Family Album: Stories of Kinfolk penned & read by writers of the South

Family Album:  Stories of Kinfolk penned  & read by writers of the South
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Produced by Southern Living Magazine, this single cassette compilation of 'Stories of Kinfold' called In Southern Words, includes the following stories:

Sude #1: Finding Aunt Lillie by Gary D. Ford, Boarders by Shirley Abbott, The Thumper by Wanda Butler, and Letter from Rome by Pat Conroy. Side #2: The Way Folks Were Meant to Eat' by Roy Blount, Jr, 'Summer Remembrances' by John Hamner, 'My Father and Me' by Kyle Caldwell Mann, and 'Penny Show' by Reynolds Price.

If you are from the South or live here now, these will be echoes for you. If you don't have the good fortune to live in the South, welcome to a few pictures of what it's like.