Joan Williams

American novelist and short-story writer from Memphis, Tennessee, noted for nuanced portrayals of Southern life and for her long correspondence with William Faulkner.

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  1. 1. The Morning And The Evening

    A spare, compassionate portrait of a mute, intellectually disabled man in a small Southern river town whose fragile routine is shattered when the parent who protected him dies; over the course of a single day, relatives, townspeople, and authorities weigh his future, revealing a community’s mingled pity, fear, and tenderness, while the cadence of the landscape underscores themes of time, dignity, and belonging.

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