Hyperion, New York, 2001, 1^st/1^st.  ISBN 0-7868-6656-X.  Hard cover, 317 pages plus Acknowledgments.  Very good; sound binding with headbands and a slight lean; dust jacket with price intact shows very light edge and cover wear; interior clean and unmarked.  ‘… the backwoods South of the 1960s – Haynes tells the story of a mysterious town and its inhabitants, each with their own afflictions and joys, each with their own secrets.  In sparsely populated George County, Mississippi, along a quiet dirt road lined by sharecropper houses, lies Chalktown – a small village of folks who communicate mostly through the chalkboards set up in the front yards of their houses.’ (from front flap)