Mark Dunn Books in Order

Six Southern sisters communicate by telephone over an unsettled autumn weekend. Their calls gradually expose the distance between them and the painful family history they must confront if they hope to rebuild their relationships.

A new teacher disrupts an elementary school's rigid order with unconventional classroom methods. Her efforts to free pupils from authoritarian habits alarm the principal, raising questions about whether her apparent recklessness may offer the school what it needs.

Two sisters and a brother must decide what to do with the coastal house where surrogate parents raised them. A year after those parents' deaths, old security gives way to difficult choices about independence and the rest of their lives.

Five bank tellers share coffee and conversation in a Mississippi break room over six mornings. As troubled relationships emerge, their growing friendship helps them question lives defined by men and begin finding strength and self-respect together.

Romance develops between a Texas judge and a constable while a jury argues over a dispute between former lovers. The parallel encounters expose resentments and assumptions about relationships, testing whether common ground can emerge from antagonism.

Two people meet in an apartment building's laundry room as their relationship ends. Shifting actors and gender combinations replay the separation in four forms, revealing common experiences of rejection, bitterness, self-discovery, and the possibility of starting again.

A widower and his daughters gather at the family cabin for their first Memorial Day weekend after their mother's death. Misfortunes and an abusive marriage turn the reunion chaotic, forcing an estranged family to decide whether it can hold together.

On an island devoted to a celebrated sentence, letters falling from a monument are progressively forbidden. Ella tries to protect her family and neighbors from the resulting tyranny as their shrinking alphabet threatens the very possibility of resistance.

After a house fire, three generations of an East Texas family live together under the weight of grief and emotional distress. An unconventional newcomer challenges their despair, helping them search for forgiveness, connection, and reasons to embrace life again.

Over a Labor Day weekend, residents of a small Mississippi town pursue love, faith, and modest dreams through a succession of misadventures. Their intersecting lives reveal eccentricity, vulnerability, and the complications that turn simple hopes into unexpected trouble.

After a biographer's manuscript is destroyed, only the footnotes remain to recount his subject's life. Those scraps reconstruct the career of a three-legged circus performer turned deodorant entrepreneur, assembling an unconventional portrait from commentary, documents, and digressions.

Two women meet annually while posing in a Southern museum's living historical displays. Across ten years, their brief reunions reveal changing lives and contrasting backgrounds, allowing an unlikely friendship to become a lasting source of strength.

Twin brothers Rodney and Wayne discover that their town no longer obeys the laws of nature. When everyone is shifted twelve years into the past, the boys must find their professor friend and reverse the change despite becoming babies themselves.

A sprawling Regency community provides the setting for a parody that explores desires and social behavior beyond polite drawing-room conventions. Its inhabitants negotiate pretensions, bodily realities, and imperfect attempts at civility in a world crowded with unruly humanity.

A Mississippi pig farmer's daughter sells pork rinds at a fair while dreaming of a job in an upscale barbecue restaurant. This Southern reworking of Pygmalion turns questions of language, aspiration, and social class toward a different setting.

Residents of an isolated town believe they inhabit a Victorian world surrounded by plague. When a few discover their community is an experiment scheduled for destruction, they must expose its concealed reality and save thousands from annihilation.

One hundred interconnected stories follow a century of American lives, each set in a different year. Private hopes intersect with disasters, war, cultural change, and chance encounters before the scattered narratives converge at the edge of a new millennium.

Seven short plays use interviews to explore human hopes, fears, and misunderstandings. Ranging from comedy to tragedy, encounters such as a fraught hiring conversation and a biographer's unsettling discovery expose what people reveal while questioning one another.

Five young women face predatory suitors and uncertain futures in five versions of the same story. Moving across historical periods and literary styles, their changing occupations and surroundings reveal recurring patterns of friendship, danger, and social constraint.

Facing a forced move from the home she knows, a woman in her seventies asks the people buying it for help. Completing the last unfinished puzzle in her collection becomes a shared task during a difficult transition.