Books by Judson Mitcham

Cuts through the moral ambiguities of life in the midcentury rural South to show us the heart and soul of a good but flawed man. Sharecropper's son, mill worker, and ex-convict - Ellis Burt surely knows adversity. For a brief and cherished time there was a woman, and then a child, too, who had been a kind of salvation to him. Then they were gone.

In his second novel, Judson Mitcham, with plain but elegant language, has created a compassionate, smart, powerful work of fiction that touches the pulse of the human spirit. It travels from the ruined landscape of south Georgia and takes us all the way through the ruined landscape of a broken heart.

Features poems from the collections, ""Somewhere in Ecclesiastes"" (1991) and This April Day"" (2003). This collection shows how the moments that truly save us - that make us human - are necessarily the most fleeting.