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Like the town they live in, Timmons, South Carolina, the Vesses are a peaceful model family. John Vess, attorney and pillar of the community, and Louise, his devoted wife, have conducted their lives seamlessly in a house that has belonged to the Vesses for generations. Now young, recently widowed Annie Vess has come home to comfort her mother after the shocking insult of he father's sudden death. But things are not the way Annie left them, Tim...

In The Tree of Forgetfulness, writer Pam Durban, winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award, continues her exploration of southern history and memory. This mesmerizing and disquieting novel recovers the largely untold story of a brutal Jim Crow-era triple lynching in Aiken County, South Carolina. Through the interweaving of several characters' voices, Durban produces a complex narrative in which each section reveals a different facet of the event....

This new collection of stories explores the myriad ways people lose, find, and hold on to one another. When all else fails Pam Durban's characters the powerful act of storytelling itself keeps their broken lives together and fosters hope. Each story in this collection introduces people who yearn for better lives and find themselves entangled in the hopes and dreams that heal and bind us.

The seven stories in Pam Durban's widely praised debut collection are tales of family, of love and loss, of survival and affirmation. Durban's resonant prose subtly obliges her readers to experience the rush of icy water in a stream, the taste of greens freshly snatched from an overgrown garden, the dread weight of confusion and uncertainty.In "This Heat, " the opening story, a mill worker faces the long-expected loss of her teenage son when h...

A contemporary woman from an old-line Charleston family finds herself haunted by a presence when she discovers a diary from one of her slave holding ancestors.

In this wise, lyrical, and engrossing first novel--a rich blend of enchantinglanguage and eloquent storytelling--a woman unearths the secrets of her SouthCarolina home and family. "A compelling story of love and family ties".--JillMcCorkle, The Boston Sunday Globe.