Chicken Dreaming Corn

In 1916, on the immigrant blocks of the Southern port city of Mobile, Alabama, a Romanian Jewish shopkeeper, Morris Kleinman, is sweeping his walk in preparation for the Confederate veterans parade about to pass by. "e;Daddy?"e; his son asks, "e;are we Rebels?"e; "e;Today?"e; muses Morris. "e;Yes, we are Rebels."e; Thus opens a novel set, like many, in a languid Southern town. But, in a rarity for...