Award-winning author Jill McCorkle takes us on a splendid journey through time and memory. Constantly surprising, Life After Life is filled with a sense of wonder as the residents, staff, and neighbors of the Pine Haven retirement center share some of life's most profound discoveries. Some of the most true-to-life characters that you are ever likely to meet in fiction, what they learn about themselves and one another will transform them all. (Bestseller)...

Kate, a young Southern girl in the 1970s, is caught in a tug-of-war between a prim and sensitive mother and a beautiful and reckless cousin.

Jill McCorkle tells the varied tales of today's southern women, the lives they end up leading, and the loves that distract them. Stuck in the slow lane, gunning their motors, they are women living the real life, hoping things will get better, but surprised when they occasionally do.

Three generations of women gather to help Virginia, who has had a hard pregnancy, prepare for the fourth generation.

Witty stories set in the South. The story, It's a Funeral! RSVP, is a kind of do-it-yourself funeral service for those about to die, while in Your Husband Is Cheating on Us, a mistress proposes joining forces with the wife against a second mistress. Another extraordinary collection of short stories by the author of "Carolina Moon" and "Crash Diet". "(McCorkle's) characters ... ring as true as lead crystal".--"The Commercial Appeal" (Memphis). Available....

"A collection of stories that take an intimate look at the moments when a person's life changes forever"--

"What is it about the relationship between fathers and daughters that provokes so much exquisite tenderness, satisfying communion, longing for more, idealization from both ends, followed often if not inevitably by disappointment, hurt, and the need to understand and forgive, or to finger the guilt of not understanding and loving enough?" writes Phillip Lopate, in his introduction to this collection of 24 personal essays by women writers writing about...