Anderson Ferrell Selected Works

When this novel's eager protagonist, Jerry Chiffon, dressed in a red ladies' suit and carrying a fake Chanel purse, tries to assassinate a right-wing United States senator in Branch Creek, North Carolina, he succeeds in putting the tiny town on the national map. Have You Heard introduces a host of inimitable characters with endearing foibles, not-so-endearing foibles, and closely held, destructive secrets.

The narrator returns to his small Southern hometown to attempt a reconciliation with his estranged father and to determine what to do about the remains of a lover, whose ashes he had secretly interred in the ancestral cemetery a year earlier.

The highly acclaimed story of Cleo Lewis, living a hardworking life on the Southern family tobacco farm, of which Newsweek wrote, "this lucid, beautifully controlled novel resists comparison: Ferrell commands his own territory."