![]() ![]() ![]() There’s the hospital maintenance supervisor, a full-blooded Cherokee who sings a traditional Indian healing song to himself whenever someone is brought to the emergency room with snakebite (possibly saving Aunt Belle’s life).Īnd there’s Mama, who simply can’t understand why a black man isn’t going to be elected to public office in the South. Harris is saying when that ear comes off is seared into memory forever.” There are the ornithologists who take advantage of a sick child’s elevated temperature to incubate rare turkey eggs. ![]() There’s the substitute teacher whose prosthetic ear flies across the room when he gets excited. There’s Aunt Belle, false teeth clacking as she announces, “I’ll drive the getaway car” on an errand to reclaim a copper garden ornament. Her easy, conversational tone creates an instant bond with readers her pitch-perfect storytelling could charm alligators out of swamps and the people in her small Georgia town easily become the stuff of folklore. Bailey White belongs to the homespun class of humorist-deadpan, disarmingly candid, quietly observant. ![]()
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