The Gator Did It
- 328 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Kay Dew Shostak is hailed as a new voice in Southern Fiction, exploring the familiar and beloved from fresh perspectives. Her work delves into the everyday, uncovering the absurd, the beautiful, and the funny within the Southern landscape. Drawing from diverse experiences across the country after a childhood in small-town Tennessee, Shostak finds her literary inspiration in the unexpected. Her distinctive style captures unique insights, offering readers a compelling and often humorous engagement with her world.


Looking in your teenage daughter's purse in never a good idea. After all, it ended up with Carolina opening a B&B for railroad buffs in a tiny Georgia mountain town. Carolina knows all about, and hates, small towns. How did she end up leaving her wonderful Atlanta suburbs behind while making her husband's dreams come true? Unlike back home in the suburbs with privacy fences and automatic garage doors, everybody in Chancey thinks your business is their business and they all love the newest Chancey business. The B&B hosts a senate candidate, a tea for the County Fair beauty contestants, and railroad nuts who sit out by the tracks and record the sound of a train going by. Yet, nobody believes Carolina prefers the 'burbs. Oh, yeah, and if you just ignore a ghost, will it go away?