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Trouble Down South and Other Stories---Also Read Missus Buck and Miss Carmelia Faye Lafayette [Kindle Edition]

Katrina Parker Williams (Author)
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Publication Date: March 18, 2011
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Enslavement, murder, abuse, illness: there’s real trouble for the characters in Trouble Down South and Other Stories. The short stories take the reader on a journey to the past through a collection of interestingly crafted pieces of flawed humanness, social injustice, and redemption, and even humor.

The short story collection of historical fiction chronicles events spanning more than 150 years and addresses a wide range of experiences from African-American perspectives. The stories are set in the South amid a changing landscape in which the characters are forced to wrestle with the social issues surrounding Native Americans, slavery, racism, Prohibition, the Korean War, Civil Rights, the Vietnam War, health, religion, mental illness, and education.


About the Author--Katrina Parker Williams teaches English grammar and composition at a community college. She is the author of the following titles available at Amazon.

Read Katrina Parker Williams’ works:

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Missus Buck—A Short Story (Trouble Down South Series)
Miss Carmelia Faye Lafayette--—A Short Story (Trouble Down South Series)
Trouble Down South and Other Stories—A Collection of Short Stories

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About the Author

Katrina Parker Williams teaches English composition and grammar at a community college. She is a Barton College graduate with a B.S. in Communications and a Masters of Education in English from East Carolina University. She is also the author of a fictional novel titled Liquor House Music. Williams classifies herself as storyteller of tales. Her works have appeared in Charlotte Viewpoint, Muscadine Lines, Usadeepsouth, and the Wilson Literary Review. Her writings have recently been published at The Saints’ Placenta, All Things Girl, Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Pens on Fire, and Muscadine Lines. A short story was recently published in the Patchwork Path anthology.

Product Details

  • File Size: 190 KB
  • Print Length: 139 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0615466567
  • Publisher: Step Art Designs; 1 edition (March 18, 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B004SUR600
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Lending: Enabled
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #119,074 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Trouble down South May 12, 2011
Format:Kindle Edition
This book was very easy to read. It was written very well and drew me in to the stories. I found it to be a kind of history of African Americans from slave days to current. It was kind of sad how much oppression there still is for the African American community in these stories.
There are 12 stories in this book. Some of them seem to follow off the others and others do not. I enjoyed all of the stories but Slave Auction, The House Down the Dirt Lane and Aunt Luella's House had the most impact on me.
Slave auction is about a slave mother and her 4 year old son who are sold at auction. They are sold to different owners and separated. It was a well written story that was hard to read for me. When I was hurt, my son was two and while I was in the hospital for a month and a half he was only allowed to see me a few times. That was very hard.
The House Down the Dirt lane is about a soldier who had PTSD after coming back from war. The bosses at my work are still trying to say that I have PTSD after my accident. It is very frustrating.
Aunt Luella's House was very interesting to me. I know about the violence African Americans face but the death in this story seemed to be for nothing. That bothered me.
I am not African American but I found this book to be very good and it helped me understand more how they might feel. A very good book.
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Bittersweet May 26, 2011
Format:Paperback
Trouble Down South and Other Stories by Katrina Parker Williams is a collection of 12 historical fiction short stories which explores themes from an African-American perspective on living in the southern part of the United States over the past 200 years. I knew from the book title the stories would not necessarily fall in the "happily ever-after" category as while we need to know the stories regarding African-Americans and the South, many include painful memories. The stories cover a range of topics dealing with issues of humanity over the changing times in Southern history, but all of the stories have a common theme of dignity and strength of character.

As in most short story collections, there are some stories that will resonate more than others depending on the reader. My favorites in this collection were the stories that were short length-wise. As in poetry, much can be said in a few well-turned phases. In three pages, the story Revolt in the Cherokee Nation, I learned about which of the Native American tribes were slaveholders; dispelling the myth among many African-Americans that Native Americans were their friends during slavery. In The Toll of War, a proud and honorable black marine returning from Vietnam is spit upon by an elderly white man, learning that hate can run deep in your own country.

While I enjoyed Ms. Williams' elegant writing style and her ability to make difficult topics palatable, there was not much new territory covered in the stories regarding African-Americans and their trials and tribulations in the South. What was new and refreshing were the stories which included the Native Americans and how they fit into the Southern landscape. I would have liked for the author to explore further in this area in the short stories, or perhaps this will be done in the future as a full-length novel. The stories often tell heart-breaking events, and while I commend the author for telling them in a no-nonsense manner I would have liked to see a little more passion to the words as I often felt emotionally detached from the stories.

I recommend this book to readers of historical fiction and short stories. It would be wonderful for this book to be in school libraries to allow high school students to explore history through the eyes of individuals.

This book was provided by the publisher for review purposes.

Reviewed by Beverly
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Trouble Down South and Other Stories by Katrina Parker Williams is a collection of short stories dealing with slavery, racism and civil rights in the south. Written as historical fiction each story deals with a different period of time in our history and captures the struggle of human dignity and life in a segregated south.

The author captures the reality of life by vividly painting an accurate depiction of the everyday trials of the average black person trying to survive. She accomplishes this by writing in a real life style and using period colloquialism that reflect the actual life of her characters. She weaves a detailed tapestry with words of the life stories of her characters.

Having grown up is this region of the country during the latter part of segregation, the sounds and events of that time came flooding back to me. I was reminded of the disrespect, humiliation and cruelty that a whole section of our population was subjected to.

I highly recommend Trouble Down South and Other Stories as a must read. It is an excellent example of historical fiction, accurately depicting a period of our history that should not be forgotten.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Well Written But in Need of Editing
This is obviously a self-published book. Not a problem except, of course, when there are the annoying misspellings (Negros and Negroes on the same page as just one example) as well... Read more
Published 16 days ago by C. E. Selby
Some truly haunting images in this collection
The twelve stories in Katrina Parker Williams Trouble Down South collection depict the lives of black Americans in the southern US over the last 200 years. Read more
Published 3 months ago by S. Deeth
Education, empathy and love
The stories in this book contain the time between the beginnings of the horror of slaves in America to the present plight of black Americans in the southern US. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Christine Cunningham
KATRINA PARKER WILLIAMS' "TROUBLE DOWN SOUTH AND OTHER STORIES" (A...
Katrina Parker Williams has a way of weaving a story that makes you believe she was right there and saw it happen. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Kitty Bullard
Lovely
I received a copy of this book through the author herself.
This was a wonderfully, rich book. I loved the ambience, all the Southern mojo in its pages. Read more
Published 12 months ago by V. Cano
A Beautifully Constructed Short Story Collection!
Wow! Amazing! Simply amazing! But of course I knew it would be ever since I laid my eyes on it during a GoodReads FirstReads giveaway! Read more
Published 12 months ago by Rain Misoa
Great Collection!
I was gratefully able to read this book thanks to the author (and her patience with me).

This collection of short stories has it all. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Amanda Welling
A review of one story in this collection
This review is for a single story in the short story collection by Williams. "Rock" tells the story of a colored soldier after he returns home from serving his country honorably... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Alain Gomez
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Katrina Parker Williams teaches English composition and grammar at a community college. She is a Barton College graduate with a B.S. in Communications and a Masters of Education in English from East Carolina University. She is also the author of a fictional novel titled Liquor House Music. Her works have appeared in Charlotte Viewpoint, Muscadine Lines, Usadeepsouth, and the Wilson Literary Review. Her writings have recently been published at The Saints' Placenta, All Things Girl, Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Pens on Fire, and Muscadine Lines. A short story was recently published in the Patchwork Path anthology.

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