In the twentyfourth volume of this distinguished anthology Madison Smartt Bell chooses twentyone distinctive pieces of short fiction to tell the story of the South as it is now. This is a South that is still recognizable but no longer predictable. As he says to the traditional black and white recipe ever a tricky and volatile mixture have been added new shades and strains from Asia and Central and South America and just about everywhere else on the shrinking globe. Just as Katrina brought out