We Are the Living: Brief Stories

viii, 264 pp. We Are the Living is a 1933 collection of short stories by Erskine Caldwell, comprising some of his earlier works. Some stories in the collection are humorous or satirical, while others are lyrical, romantic and/or tragic. Several of them are laid against the background of the lives of ordinary people in the contemporary US South, the social milieu most familiar to the author; some are specifically located in his home state of Georgia.