Jonathan Odell is the author of three novels: The View from Delphi, which deals with the struggle for equality in pre-civil rights Mississippi, his home state; The Healing, which is set on a plantation in the Mississippi Delta and explores the power of a story to free a people; and his most recent, Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League, which was released by Maiden Lane Press in February 2015. His essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times, Commonweal, Publishers Weekly, Baltimore Review, Utne Reader, and elsewhere. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with his husband.
Ten years ago, a childhood friend came out to me. He was nearly sixty and living in Laurel, Mississippi, the small town where we both grew up. He said he had been seeing the same woman now for twenty years, unable to come to terms with his sexuality. He had had plenty of sex with […]
