An old man reminisces about his first love, a young runaway who taught him more about life than anyone had before or since.

On his deathbed, surrounded by his family, George Washington Crosby's thoughts drift back to his childhood and the father who abandoned him when

Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, this modern classic is the tale of women in small-town Alabama--in the 1930s and the 1980s.

During an interview with a New York writer, seventy-nine-year-old artist Hope Chafetz describes her eventful life and her integral place in the s

Traveling to France during World War I to bring home her fifteen-year-old brother, who ran away to enlist, Iris, a young Australian nurse, decide

A collection of letters from an 80-year-old woman living in a small town in Italy to her rebellious granddaughter in America. In them she recount

Approaching what she believes will be the most interesting period of her life, nearly sixty-year-old curmudgeon Marie Sharp eschews the trend-ori

Mrs. Threadgoode's tale of two high-spirited women of the 1930s, Idgie and Ruth, helps Evelyn, a 1980s woman in a sad slump of middle age, to beg

Short stories featuring New Yorkers whose daily lives are thwarted by a swerve of fate or a mishap or a time warp.