GHOSTS IN THE COTTON - THE DELTA COLLECTION
AVAILABLE AUGUST 18, 2025!
In the still, haunted fields between Memphis and New Orleans—where cotton once ruled and blood still remembers—Ghosts in the Cotton gathers stories of the Mississippi Delta like heirloom seeds: tender, brutal, and full of truth.
From the quiet desperation of a young boy in Clarksdale to the righteous fury of tenant farmers in Tunica, Romer Shaw’s Delta Collection explores the lives of those too often buried beneath the silence of history. Here, men break under the weight of shame, women rise against the thorns of tradition, and the dead don’t stay quiet for long.
Told in a voice with the rhythm of a preacher and the rawness of a field hand, these stories reckon with race, poverty, pride, and place—where family binds, memory burns, and every grave is a question left unanswered.
Ghosts in the Cotton is a Southern elegy and a battle hymn. A tribute to those who endured—and a reckoning for those who did not.
ISBN: 979-8-9897952-1-5, 225 pages