Driving Southern: Life in Cars

Corvettes and Thunderbirds are parked next to Studebakers, Beetles, and, in some cases, cars that may defy description of any kind in this collection of twenty-six original essays and stories about first cars, family cars, and even dream cars that traveled the highways and backroads of the authors’ lives. Often hilarious, sometimes bittersweet, the stories are about growing up—although for some of us, where cars and trucks are concerned, we never quite do.

Ralph Bland is the author of twelve novels and two collections of stories. His work includes Lockhart and Lamb White Days.

Michael Braswell is the author and coauthor/editor of books on human relations, ethics, sports, and religion as well as three short story collections and two novels. His most recent work includes Growing Up South of the Mason-Dixon Line (with Anthony Cavender, Ralph Bland, and Donald Ball) and Teaching Justice (with John Whitehead).