In a most unusual portrait of early America, a young mother’s years in captivity with the Shawnee prove to be the best years of her life.
Fiction by Sallie Bingham
Mending: New and Selected Stories
Sarabande Books (10/1/2011) — Fiction
In Mending, Sallie Bingham follows the often brutal course of yearning and its disappointments with an emotional acuity both unflinching and vigilant.
Red Car
Sarabande Books (2008) — Fiction
In these twelve stories, Bingham travels from the beaches of Normandy shortly after the second World War, to modern-day Brittany, Santa Fe, Florida, and Southern Colorado to situate her wide range of characters.
Nick of Time
Sunstone Press (2006) — Fiction
Melanie is a dancer-the most unlikely dancer in the world, a woman who has had a hard life, waitressing, raising a son alone, putting up with an abusive husband. Late
Cory’s Feast
Sunstone Press (2005) — Fiction
Cory is a middle-aged Easterner, long-divorced, energetic and fearlessly sensual. Pursuing a dream she has nursed for years, she moves to Taos, New Mexico and buys a famous old house
Transgressions: Stories
Sarabande Books (2002) — Fiction
In her wise and sexy collection, Sallie Bingham examines modern-day “transgressions” in affairs of the heart. She offers up a ménage à trois, an older woman’s affair with a student,
Straight Man
Zoland Books (1996) — Fiction
Though the title of Bingham’s new novel suggests one half of a comedy team, the feelings of the protagonist, Louisville college professor Colby Winn, are no joke. When Colby picks
Matron of Honor
Zoland Books (1994) — Fiction
As in her previous novels, Bingham concerns herself with family relationships, and in many ways revisits the tensions of her own well-known Kentucky clan, which she chronicled in the nonfiction
Upstate
Permanent Press (NY) (1993) — Fiction
A woman’s obsession drives an affair out of control, violating social contracts and devastating the people in its path. For years, Ann and David shared weekends and holidays with country
Small Victories
Zoland Books (1993) — Fiction
Southern gothic touches lace this dark, portentous story of family lies revealed and grievances redressed. In Passion & Prejudice, Bingham described the bitter conflicts that beset several generations of her