With a new introduction from best-selling author Ann Patchett, this National Book Award—winning story collection is one of the great works of twentieth-century American literature. Eudora Welty wrote novels, novellas, and reviews over the course of her long career, but the heart and soul of her literary vision lay with the short story, and her National Book Award—winning Collected Stories confirmed her as a master of short fiction. The forty-one...

Present Day: Keaton Smith is desperate for a fresh start. So when her mother needs someone to put her childhood home in Beaufort, North Carolina, on the market, the home that Keaton didnt know existed until now, she jumps at the chance to head south. But the moment she steps foot inside the abandoned house, shes confronted with secrets about grandparents who died before she was born. And as she gets to know her charming nextdoor neighbor, his precocious...