Due South: Dispatches from Down Home [Paperback]

Now in paperback — the enormously popular essays Fannie Flagg called “as charming and welcome as an early spring down home.”
“A delightful collection, just right to keep my your bedside.”
—Southern Living

“Brunner’s short essays are warm remembrances of family and place, and several … are gems that may have you dabbing at the corner of your eyes.”
—Charlotte News & Observer

“As engaging, as entertaining, and as charming as the south itself.”
—BookPage

“I just wish there were more to this little gem of a book. It’s a delightful way to pass an hour or so, sweating glass of tea in hand.”
—Winston-Salem Journal

“Bless your heart Mr. Brunner, for offering this crazy quilt of southern life.”
—Kirkus Reviews
R. Scott Brunner is a commentator on public radio in Mississippi and National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. A Mississippi Association of Realtor’s executive, he lives with his wife and their three children in Ridgeland, Mississippi.Numbered Days

In the chill of January, she numbers her days.

She stands there at her back door--her gaze alternating between a view of the rear pasture through frosty storm windows on the back porch and one of those freebie wall calendars emblazoned with the Bank of Evergreen logo. On that calendar, with a felt-tip pen, steady of hand, she records the events of her life--those sublimely quotidian activities and images that mark her existence.

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