Bastard Out of Carolina (Anniversary) Role Playing & Fantasy From the author of the

From the author of the bestselling The Dangerous Book for Boys

Stories about his ancestral legacy in rural Arkansas that extend back to slavery

author of the award-winning baking book Mooncakes and Milk Bread

With a cast of real-life characters including Walt Whitman

Growing up as outcasts in the small desert town of Juniper

Bastard Out of Carolina (Anniversary) Role Playing & Fantasy From the author of theA profound portrait of family dynamics in the rural South and "an essential novel" (The New Yorker) "As close to flawless as any reader could ask for . . . The living language [Allison] has created is as exact and innovative as the language of To Kill a Mockingbird and The Catcher in the Rye." The New York Times Book Review One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years The publication of Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina