stories that take you places
Ida’s world is muddy. Filled with dirt roads, creek banks, steep bluffs and cotton fields. Inhabited by bumblers and braggarts, punks and preachers, seekers and soothsayers. Where the fight for redemption is hard fought and hard won.
So turn up the radio and hold tight, this is one ride you do not want to miss!
Found out at last
You guessed it. I’m Idabel Allen and I serve up the best in new home cooked literature in the tradition of Eudora Welty, Charles Portis, William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor. I’ve been published in Writer’s Digest, TripFiction, Women Writers, Women’s Books and featured in Southern Writers Magazine. Be sure to check out my interview in The Southern Literary Review iffen you’d like to know a little more.
“Idabel Allen has a solid, remarkable little book here... a strange blend of punk music, Flannery O' Connor's inimitable Southern oddness.”
— J from New York, Vine Voice
“This isn't about the genteel, quaint South. It's a complex, raw story about family secrets, a country funeral that gives an emotional gut punch, and the meandering path of fate that re-unites a troubled family.”
– Carolyn Bahm - Barlett Express