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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 ad...

Dorie LaRue's title alludes to a line from Othello: "O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains." In this searingly honest collection, the enemy is drugs, and the brains being stolen are those of our children. Much has been written about the drug epidemic, but only LaRue understands the all-consuming hunger that drives it: "the idea that being drugged/is better than being alive." The ghost of Anne Sexton, wh...

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