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Southern Essays - BOOKS - APPAREL - HISTORY - HUMOR

AMANDA HARGROVE 

A girl who couldn't be more thankful to God for letting me be born where stories grow.

Some folks come for stories. Some come for history. Others just appreciate a little Southern humor that hasn't been watered down for polite company. 

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Whatever brought you here, we're glad you stopped by.

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Southern Story Company is the home of North Mississippi writer and storyteller Amanda Hargrove, who has spent a good portion of her life stopping to notice the things everybody else walked past. 

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Around here, we believe the South has never been short on good stories.  It's just that some of the best ones never made it to the history books.

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We're doing something about that. 

 

A Little Reading, A Little Laughing, and a Whole Lot of Southern 

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​Whether you've got five minutes to spare or an entire Sunday afternoon,, there's something here for you. 

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Enjoy short, entertaining essays about Southern living, small-town characters, family traditions, peculiar customs, and the everyday foolishness that makes life below the Mason-Dixon line, so interesting. Some will make you laugh.. others might make you remember somebody you haven't thought of in years.

Short Essays & Southern Humor

Amanda Hargrove writes about the South the way it is remembered - through the people, places, humor, grief, faith, and history that seldom make the history books. 

Signed copies are coming soon to select retailers across North Mississippi. 

Interested in carrying the book in your shop?
Written for readers who miss Lewis Grizzard's wit, love Rick Bragg's South, and still believe the best stories are hiding in ordinary places.

A collection of Southern stories about what remains after everybody else has gone home - the old places, family stories, cemeteries, ordinary people, and pieces of history worth stopping long enough to notice.

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    Southern Story Company 2026

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