Only Visiting this Planet: Stories from the New South

by Dorie LaRue

Winner of Kirkus Award for Independent novels, Dorie LaRue's remarkable collection of short stories from the postmodern South bears witness to the complicated lives of its characters as willful and courageous, doomed and redeemed. This book is about mothers and daughters and fathers and sons in a new age of rapidly changing roles. The truths that are impossible to ignore, the pain passed between generations will take readers on a journey of adventure sometimes tragic and sometimes absurdly funny.

229 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 19, 2023

Reviews

[Audrey · Rating 5 out of 5]

The stories in this book are windowsill the lives of people throughout the past half-century in the United States, mostly the US South and Louisiana, where the author works.

Some of the women's stores really resonated, in the way that they show strength and courage.

I like the creative short stories, and how the voice is distinct depending on the point of view and perspective of the narrator.