Books by Steve Yarbrough
“It’s based on the true story of an African America woman who became the post mistress of a town in the Delta and her struggle with assuming a position of an authority in a majority Black place that was dominated by white men. The story takes place in the fictional town of Loring, Mississippi, which is Steve’s native Indianola, Mississippi. We’ve known each other since we were 19. Because I know Steve so well, I know it’s based on that story and it’s also Steve’s way of confronting the place where he grew up.” Read more...
Interviews where books by Steve Yarbrough were recommended
The best books on Mississippi, recommended by Ralph Eubanks
Outsiders see Mississippi as a site of slavery and indigenous removal; but to write about Mississippi is to write about the United States as a whole—and its original sins, says Prof Ralph Eubanks, as he recommends five of the best books on Mississippi, the birthplace of the blues.
