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Gerry Wilson

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A seventh generation Mississippian, Gerry Wilson was born in Pontotoc, thirty miles from William Faulkner's Oxford and far from just about everywhere else. She is the author of THAT PINSON GIRL, Regal House Publishing, February 2024, and a story collection, Crosscurrents and Other Stories (Press 53). She lives in Jackson, Mississippi. ...more

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Yes, there is that possibility! I have a good start on a sequel to That Pinson Girl that takes place during World War II. We'll see what ha…more
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Yes, there is that possibility! I have a good start on a sequel to That Pinson Girl that takes place during World War II. We'll see what happens with it!

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Gerry Wilson So many, Terry, and I think I'm a discriminating reader! For starters: Alice Munro, Anthony Doerr, Kate Atkinson, Lauren Groff, Andre Dubus, Antonya N…moreSo many, Terry, and I think I'm a discriminating reader! For starters: Alice Munro, Anthony Doerr, Kate Atkinson, Lauren Groff, Andre Dubus, Antonya Nelson, Tiffany Quay Tyson, Jane Smiley, Alice Hoffman, Anne Tyler, Marilynne Robinson, Erika Krouse, Hillary Mantel, Richard Ford . . . And the classics: Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner . . .(less)
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That Pinson Girl by Gerry Wilson
"“That Pinson Girl” is first-rate Southern fiction. Gerry Wilson writes beautifully about the dark stuff — secrets that can’t be buried, scars that can never heal, and how the home front can be as fraught as a faraway battlefield. Set in North Mississ" Read more of this review »
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"Fantastic story - couldn’t put it down. It’s the story of a complicated family in rural Mississippi in the years around WWI. It covers almost every social and economic issue of that day, and because it’s Mississippi, there is a lot of racism.

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That Pinson Girl by Gerry Wilson
"This is a twisty family saga set around the time of World War I which compelled me from beginning to end. Exploring themes such as class, racism, disability and female agency this historical fiction illuminated attitudes of the era in Deep South Amer" Read more of this review »
Broken Heart Syndrome by Anne Colwell
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Through all the heartbreak and loss, the mistakes and disappointments, I was cheering for every last one of the characters in Anne Colwell’s debut story collection, Broken-Heart Syndrome,to make it. Doctors and nurses, patients" Read more of this review »
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Chris McClain Johnson’s beautiful novella, Three Guesses, immerses us in the lives of strangers linked by a painting (the Three Guesses of the title)—a young temp worker, the painting’s owner, and the artist. In the letters that comprise the book, th ...more
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