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Quirky Regional Fiction and Movies
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March 2003
Compiled by Maggie Holmes,
from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.
(To use this list in your library, book club, etc., please include the following credit line: "Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list." This list may not be used for commercial purposes.)
* indicates humorous as well as quirky
v indicates video
Northeast
*Russo, Richard: Empire Falls; Nobody's Fool; Risk Pool
*Shea, Suzanne S.: Selling the lite of Heaven; Lily of the Valley
Gardner, John: Sunlight Dialogues
*Evanovich, Janet: One for the Money etc.
*Scottoline, Lisa: Vendetta Defense etc.
Tyler, Anne: Breathing Lessons, etc.
vWaters, John (director): Cecil B. Demented etc.
*v: Big Night
South
*Edgerton, Clive: Walking Across Egypt
*Wells, Rebecca: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Brown, Rita Mae: Six of One; Bingo
*Smith, Lee: Family Linen; Fancy Strut; Saving Grace
McCrumb, Sharon: Songcatcher; She Walks These Hills
*Trigiani, Adriana: Big Stone Gap
*Flagg, Fannie: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe
*Welty, Eudora: Ponder Heart
*Burns, Olive Ann: Cold Sassy Tree
*Barry, Dave: Big Trouble
*Hiassen,Carl: Basket Case, etc.
*v. Henley, BethCrimes of the Heart
Midwest
*Landvik, Lorna: Patty Jane's House of Curl; Tall Pine Polka
*Dallas, Sandra: Persian Pickle Club; The Chili Queen
*Keillor, Garrison: Lake Wobegon Summer, 1956
Day, Robert: Last Cattle Drive
Bass, Rick: Winter: Notes from Montana; Book of Yaak
Taylor, Kathleen: Funeral Food
Haruf, Kent: Plainsong
*v Fargo (but also violent)
v Escanaba in da Moonlight
Southwest
*Letts, Billie: Honk and Holler Opening Soon
*Kingsolver, Barbara: Bean Trees; Animal Dreams
Lansdale, Joe: Two-bear Mambo
Bird, Sarah: The Mommy Club
Hill, Weldon: Long Summer of George Adams
v Lone Star (and others by director John Sayles)
West Coast
Maupin, Armistead: Tales of the City
Canada and Alaska
Proulx, Annie: Shipping News
*Bodett, Tom: End of the Road
MacDonald, Ann-Marie: Fall on Your Knees
Richards, David A.: Mercy Among the Children
MacLeod, Alistair: No Great Mischief
Anderson-Dargatz, Gail: Recipe for Bees; Cure for Death by Lightning
Morrissey, Donna: Downhill Chance
Burnard, Bonnie: Good House
Lansens, Lori: Rush Home Road
v Mystery, Alaska
*v Medicine River
Other:
v Bagdad Cafe (Mojave)
Barr, Nevada: Anna Pigeon mysteries vary
*Beaton, M.C. Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin series (Scotland and England)
v Ballykissangel (tv series on video) Ireland
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