Shirley Abbott Books
Love's apprentice
Shirley Abbott's new memoir offers a delightful and completely original map of modern love. Taking Casanova as her mentor, Abbott charts her own amorous education as a woman coming of emotional age...
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Womenfolks
In Womenfolks, Shirley Abbott combines captivating memoir and regional history in a generous tribute to the true mothers and daughters of the South, the gritty, independent women of the backwoods....
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Love s apprentice
The author recounts her romantic life, from her Southern girlhood to her Parisian collegiate days to her marriage, motherhood, and divorce in New York, reflecting on the nature and costs of women's...
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