Storylandia 26: Marchers' Season - Paperback

by Ginger Mayerson (Editor), Tad Bartlett (Author)

As a child in Arkansas in the 1950s, Gray Alsobrook watched his father drive away and abandon his family. So when Gray Alsobrook came home from the Vietnam War as a young man and started his own family with his wife, Doreen, he determined to put down tightly-holding roots in the first town where he got a decent job, even if it was a town with a racially troubled past like Meadowview, Alabama. Almost two decades later, their youngest child, Joe, enters the home-stretch of his senior year of high school. When the town erupts into protest and anger after the school board fires the town's first African-American schools superintendent and Joe is right in the middle of it all, Gray's dedication to putting down roots and building a stable life is put to the test. Storylandia 26 -- Marchers' Season www.Storylandia.WapshottPress.org

Author Biography

Tad Bartlett received his undergraduate degrees in theater and creative writing from Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama; a JD from Tulane University; and, to make up for the law degree, an MFA from the Creative Writing Workshop at the University of New Orleans. He is a founding member of the Peauxdunque Writers Alliance and the Managing Editor of the Peauxdunque Review. His creative non-fiction has been named a "notable" essay by Best American Essays, and has appeared in The Chautauqua Literary Journal, The Bitter Southerner, and the online Oxford American. His fiction has been published by The Baltimore Review, Carolina Quarterly, Stockholm Review of Literature, Bird's Thumb, and others. He lives in New Orleans with his wife and three children.