If you don't find yourself devouring this delicious book of short stories by Pamela King Cable, then you are not a Southern Fried Woman (or Man). After laughing and crying your way through this collection, you will eagerly await new offerings from this talented writer!

Cassandra King Conroy Bestselling author of The Same Sweet Girls and The Sunday Wife

A history of racism and bigotry in a local diner is uncovered in Pigment of my Imagination, as the owner defends two young women and their right to be served; Vernell Paskins is a woman who lives in the land of the doublewides and works at the interstate flea market; Cry finds a pregnant woman in labor, lost, and broken down on a deserted road; an unexplained stranger arrives in town after a women's prayer group hears angels sing during a violent coal mine strike in Coal Dust On My Feet; in Punkin Head, one woman struggles with the decision to keep her unborn baby, as her husband's employer?a popular televangelist?is opposed to having children; in The Homestead, a woman reveals that death is not the end of existence; a single mother discovers why her young son despises their supper guest in Old Time Religion; two Pentecostal young ladies escape, shedding their cotton dusters for bathing suits, makeup, and getting their fortunes told at Carolina Beach in Beach Babies; grief shows up 30 years after a woman forgets her best friend in No Time For Laura; and a divine entity protects one young girl amidst the rough and soul-scraping world of coal mining in Abigail Grace.