For other novels that use magical realism, see Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude or Love in the Time of Cholera.
For other novels set in fictional towns from the South, see works by William Faulkner such as Absalom, Absalom! or The Sound and the Fury, and Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston.
For other works by (or edited by) Jesmyn Ward, see Salvage the Bones, The Fire This Time, and Men We Reaped.