Brad Watson

"Astonishing prose brings to life a forgotten woman and a lost world in a strange and bittersweet Southern pastoral. Since his award-winning debut collection of stories, Last Days of the Dog- Men, Brad Watson has been expanding the literary traditions of the South, in work as melancholy, witty, strange, and lovely as any in America. Inspired by the true story of his own great-aunt, he explores the life of Miss Jane Chisolm, born in rural, early-twentieth-century...

Eight stories on dogs. In Seeing Eye, a dog reflects on his carefree days before he became responsible for a blind man, Kindred Spirits is on a dog made to hunt wild boar, while Bill is on a woman who has to put a dog to sleep.

A University professor with an insatiable appetite for investigation is asked by some old family friends to investigate a series of hauntings at their antique bookstore.