As this annual anthology of short stories approaches its quarter-century mark of publication, it becomes increasingly evident that America's South has become a more diverse environment, no longer a society of rigid demarcations where one group dominates all others. Michael Knight tells a grim tale about a husband out to confront violently his straying wife and her lover. In one of the longer selections, Rahul Mehta writes of a young man returning to his West Virginia home with his male partner in tow to visit a dying grandfather, a devout Hindu. A young woman from New Orleans becomes a welder in a selection from Katherine Karlin. Kelly Cherry delves into the mind of a sensitive young man discovering that his beloved grandfather had spent time as a Hitler Youth. Taken together, these stories portray an evolving face for Southern letters.
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