"An amazing, original collection romping through history and
contemporary life with no holds barred, no subject taboo. These
brilliant stories astonish with their extravagant language, piercing
insight and deep compassion."
— Lee Smith, author of Oral
History and The Last Girls
"The great strength of Uke Rivers Delivers is the range of memorable voices—some
comic, some wise, some distorting like the wild mirror in a fun house, others
opening onto a view of history that surprises and inspires. Smith rarely does
the expected thing and shows us that nothing in the South, in our lives, is
quite what it seems."
— Robert Morgan, author of Gap Creek and
Brave Enemies
R. T. Smith has been one of our best poets for many years. But don’t
let that scare you off. This collection of stories is funny, amazing, daring.
Its polyphonic voices of Civil War ghosts, broken innocents, and confused
killers lead you down contrarian trails deep into the haunted territory of
Southern myth and magic. This is the most enjoyment I’ve gotten from
a batch of fiction in a longer span of time than I care to recollect.”
— Charles Frazier, author of Cold Mountain
and
Thirteen Moons
