The Curious Lives of Nonprofit Martyrs

“Legendary South Carolina absurdist Singleton weighs in with another rollicking collection. … A Southern original adds to his gallery of Southern originals.” —Kirkus starred review

“Singleton delivers an offbeat collection filled with Southern eccentrics. … Singleton lights up the colorful and odd situations with wit and verve. Southern fiction fans will have a blast.” —Publishers Weekly

“A delightful, occasionally disturbing and unapologetically honest exploration of Southern life … There’s a beautiful brokenness driving these characters toward their distinctive causes that’s born from the most basic of compulsions — the human need to belong.” —Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“Please know that it is against my nature to fling the word ‘genius’ around like a sandlot football. I’ve used it maybe five times, and in all of those instances I applied it to composers, partly because I don’t understand how they do what they do. Being a fiction writer, I understand all too well how we do what we do. But George Singleton is a genius, because he repeatedly manages to make me laugh, often uproariously, when my first impulse is to cry. How he accomplishes this feat is as mysterious to me as the twelve-tone music of, say, Arnold Schoenberg. But I know this: contemporary American literature—and I daresay the country itself—would be more vibrant if we had more writers like him. George Singleton is something perhaps even rarer than a genius. He’s a treasure.” —Steve Yarbrough, author of Stay Gone Days