ASIN: B00RM0ZS7Q
Publisher: Caney Fork Press
Pages: 116
Tennessee River Cafe is a collection of interrelated short stories where you will find a delectable menu of unforgettable characters and the close-knit world they inhabit. Set in a small rural community clustered on the bluffs overlooking the Tennessee River, these stories hark back to Southern life of the late 1940's.The Tennessee River Cafe, where Miss Edna and Miss Sally, two maiden sisters, have been serving up breakfast and lunch for the past thirty-five years, is the touchstone of the stories and a common denominator for a widely diverse social order. The stories unfold in sequence, revealing the cast of characters, much as chapters in a novel, as they move in and out of the town landmarks—the cafe and bank, the hotel, grocery store, sheriff’s office, lawyer’s office—in this established and static community. But outside this constricted and public sphere, where one is always on ...
