An American Gothic tale of love and betrayal in the Deep, Deep South. Miss Amelia is a very unconventional woman - a six foot two giantess, strong and reliant. She marries Marvin Macy, the most handsome and the meanest man in town - then ten days later throws him out! She runs the local store alone until Cousin Lymon, a strutting hunch back dwarf, comes to town, steals her heart and transforms the store into a buzzing cafe. But when her rejected husband returns, a bizarre love triangle ensues and the battle of the sexes is on for young and old. This volume also contains the following short stories: Wunderkind; The Jockey; Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland; The Sojourner; A Domestic Dilemma; A Tree, A Rock, A Cloud. From the author of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.