Self Published, local author | (pub. 10/20/2024)

Hardback. Signed.

New in decorated boards.

Renowned journalist and photographer Lynn Oldshue will release the much-anticipated Our Southern Souls, Vol. II on October 20, 2024. Three years after the success of the first Souls book, which sold out in 2021, Oldshue once again invites readers into the lives of everyday people she meets through chance encounters on the street. This captivating collection of 160 stories, originally published on the website of the same name, highlights tragedy and triumph and everything in between.

Notable Stories in Souls, Vol. 2

Among the collection’s standout narratives are a man who could balance his entire body weight on one finger, a trusted advisor for an American President, and a young farm boy who left the fields at 18 for World War II combat. Other compelling stories include a football player whose NFL hopes were shattered by an injury that cost him part of his leg, a woman who swam across Mobile Bay as part of her rigorous training to conquer the English Channel, and powerful accounts of addiction, recovery, the birth and death of dreams, and losing—and finding—everything.

All proceeds will be donated to Magnolia Breeze Youth Ensemble, a therapeutic music program for local children and teens in Mobile.

A native of Yazoo City, Mississippi, Lynn Oldshue comes from a Jackson newspaper family and has conducted over 2,100 interviews for Souls and during her career as a reporter for Lagniappe and Alabama Public Radio. Her series about domestic violence, "From Hell to Hope", won an Alabama Press Association award, and her series "Sexual Slavery in South Alabama" won the 2020 William H. Johnson Print Journalism Award from the Medical Association for the State of Alabama as well as second place in feature writing for the Green Eyeshade Awards. Her Souls project, which began as a small website, has grown into a beloved series followed by more than 65,000 dedicated fans on Facebook. Each story stands as a testament to Oldshue’s belief that everyone has a story worth sharing.