Janis Owens

Photograph by Albert Isaac

About The Author

Janis Owens is the author of three previous novels and a regional cookbook. The only daughter of a Pentecostal preacher turned insurance salesman, she inherited her love of storytelling from her parents. She lives in Newberry, Florida.

Books by Janis Owens

The Cracker Kitchen

A Cookbook in Celebration of Cornbread-Fed, Down H

Introduction by Pat Conroy
Though our roots are in the Colonial South, we Crackers are essentially just another American fusion culture, and our table and our stories are constantly expanding -- nearly as fast as our waistlines.
American Ghost

A Novel

A complex and compulsively readable novel about how unresolved family history and the racial tensions of the past threaten a love affair between two young Floridians.
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