Author Description

ABOUT THE BOOK Shoeless Season in the South is a work that may evoke emotions--such as, anger, pity, and laughter--in the reader. "Shirl" Leighton, a college history professor, attends the funeral of her grandmother's closest friend. During the long, tedious interval between her arrival and the funeral services, she mulls over the past, her family, and the consequences of the individual decisions each one makes. As she does this, she reveals not only the daily, ordinary lives, hardships, and tragedies of common people living in the Deep South during the Great Depression and World War II, but she, also, depicts realistically a South struggling for survival during insecure, constantly changing circumstances.