The Wilds by Julia Elliott.   This collection of short stories had me with the first line;

                          "Brunell Hair lived in a lopsided mill house with her mama and her uncle and her little withered-up critter of a   grandmaw."

        I went to a public school in a small town in Missouri and I knew several girls who lived in lopsided mill-type houses, and a couple of them had what could fairly be described as a little withered-up critter of a grandmaw. Aside from that these are imaginative and broad-ranging, very well written stories with a dash of Southern Gothic in all.