Best Selling Paperback Books by Margaret McMullan

Moving to the 1962 Mississippi hometown of her late war hero father, Sam and her mother are targeted by conservative locals who consider them liberal agitators, prompting Sam to use her photography skills to capture reflections of social and racial injustices.

In My Mother''s House is a beautiful, haunting, and elegantly crafted novel about a daughter''s obsession to understand her mother''s staunch commitment to silence about their family''s experiences during World War II Vienna--and how they were able to escape. Told in alternating voices (Elizabeth and her mother Jenny), the story is remarkable for its fullness and rich details: the pieces of family silver the grandmother mails to the family, piece by piece, over the years; Jenny''s war-time memories of her uncle''s viola d''amore lessons; the fragrant smell of the wood floors at the Hofzeile, the family''s longstanding yellow home in Vienna. As Elizabeth begins to fill the gaps of Jenny''s troubled memory, she stumbles upon a family secret that ultimately reveals how it is that we inherit the things we do, from one generation to the next. In My Mother''s House is a poignant look at a family struggling to regain what took them generations to build and at what cost. It''s an emotional, expertly told novel that proves that Margaret McMullan will soon join the ranks of writers such as Anita Shreve and Carol Shields.

Frank Russell, known as Shanks, wishes he could have gone with his father and brother to fight for Mississippi and the Confederacy, but his experiences with the war and his changing relationship with the family slave, Buck, change his thinking.

When her world is turned upside down by her sister''s death, a mentor is assigned to fourteen-year-old Cashay to help her through her anger and grief.

Ten years after the Civil War''s end, twelve-year-old Addy, abandoned by her parents, is taken from the horrid town of No-Bob by schoolteacher Frank Russell and his bride, but when her father returns to claim her she must find another way to leave her O''Donnell past behind. 15,000 first printing.

When Warhol Was Still Alive is a funny, poignant novel about the women''s magazine industry and life in New York in the eighties. It''s about love and friendship, memory and dreams, the struggle to stay close and learning how to say goodbye.

Second Edition

Fiction. AFTERMATH LOUNGE is a compelling tribute to the Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Resurrecting the place and its people alongside their heartaches and triumphs, Margaret McMullan creates a riveting mosaic that feeds our wish to understand what it means to be alive in this day and age. "In AFTERMATH LOUNGE each short story, like a homing pigeon, returns to the Gulf Coast to explore how its people struggle with the ghost of Hurricane Katrina. With riveting prose, Margaret McMullan tracks the weblike connections of family and friends haunted by the storm from Pass Christian, Mississippi, to Chicago." William Ferris "I love these stories. They''re so smart, beautiful, true and so real that they seemed like part of my own history. I felt homesick in the best way, flooded with a kind of saddened joy. They snuffed the gimlet-eyed adult and brought to life again, for a while, the wondrous child." Brad Watson "I like these new stories so much it''s hard to know where to start. But a good place to begin would be... well, Place. She brings it to life like few writers can. You can almost feel the heavy air on your skin. As for her characters, they''re three-dimensional people who are so real, you feel like they''re in the room with you. She''s got a great ear, a fine eye, and something else that you can''t buy namely, a very large heart." Steve Yarbrough "AFTERMATH LOUNGE is a beautiful, compelling collection, the emotions as powerfully charged as the winds of a hurricane. Margaret McMullan writes movingly about those living in and pulling themselves out of destruction and chaos and loss to salvage all they can of love and redemption. From the voices of orphaned children to the least likely man to don a Santa Claus suit, there are moments of devastation, comic relief and grace." Jill McCorkle "How strange, that the best apocalyptic fiction of the year should come to us, not borne on the maelstrom of nuclear fire or horrific epidemic, but rather in this series of beautifully crafted and masterfully interwoven literary stories. In AFTERMATH, our humanity is not simply swept away by the fury and chaos of Katrina; rather, it is tested, sometimes broken, sometimes intensified, and ultimately renewed by the deluge. A hopeful Book of Revelation." Pinckney Benedict"