The Gator and the Holy Ghost

This bold collection of short fiction by James L. Fortuna Jr. explores the upheaval of the civil rights movement in the Deep South. In stories such as “Break of Day at the Woodbine, Georgia, Pecan Paradise and Cheap Gas” and “The Klansman in the Closet”—and many more-- Fortuna’s characters reveal the fear and uncertainty, hope and hatred of the Southern experience and the healing influence of faith.