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Cornbread Voodoo
by William Matthew McCarter
Billy lives in the idyllic rural community of Mina Sauk County in southeast
Missouri with his grandparents. Summer is here and his goal is to relax at
the swimming hole, play baseball with his friends, and score some tongue at
the skating rink. But, in this coming-of-age story, Billy discovers that
whatever trouble he may get himself into, his grandmother quickly discovers
through magic—her cornbread voodoo. Throughout the novel, Gram works her magic
and Billy and Jake try to find ways to circumvent it. Eventually, they all face
a challenge that even Gram’s cornbread voodoo cannot seem to cure.
After several years of being a musician in southeast Missouri and Texas,
William Matthew McCarter wrote a fictionalized version of growing up poor,
but proud, in the foothills of southeast Missouri. He is currently a PhD
candidate in literature at University of Texas at Arlington where he is working
on a project that examines the plight of the redneck in American literature.
McCarter is an English professor in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area.
Author Email: william_matthew_mccarter@hotmail.com
Book website: www.cornbreadvoodoo.com
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