Tales From Piney Grove
By Bobby Morrison
Welcome to Piney Grove, a small, rural community that is centered around a church in North Carolina.
Here, an unforgettable collection of stories vividly unravel, perfectly captured in a stunning novella compilation by Bama Boy author Bobby Morrison.
Tales from Piney Grove weaves an elegiac coming-of-age tale, told through a riveting collection of tales that collectively capture the regional, traditional, and social change of Black Americana.
In this work, Morrison sandwiches his Tales between a Prelude — which leisurely demonstrates to the reader the history of the community and its customs — and an Epilogue, which forty years later, on a frequent visit, the author sums up his "you can go home again" philosophy, about an era "gone with the wind."
Morrison is on top of his game in this stellar work, where he showcases his sharp eye and vivid recollection of a world he once knew as a child, impressively resurrecting it with astounding precision — and executing it so perfectly that readers will finds themselves transplanted to this fictional dimension.
Deeply nostalgic and relentlessly riveting from beginning to end, Tales from Piney Grove stands as another towering triumph by a master storyteller.