How Far She Went

Mary Hood. University of Georgia Press, $16.95 (136pp) ISBN 978-0-8203-1441-9

Hood's nine stories of small-town Georgia won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and the 1984 Southern Review /Louisiana State University Short Fiction Award. (Apr.)

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