The Petrified Man

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The Library of America • Story of the WeekIn a Mississippi beauty parlor, a beautician and her customer discuss husbands, boarders from out of town, and the strange inhabitants of a traveling circus sideshow.Reprinted from Eudora Welty: Stories, Essays, & Memoir (The Library of America, 1992), pages 22–36.First published in the Southern Review (Spring 1939) and collected in A Curtain of Green and Other Stories (1941). Copyright © 1939 by Eudora Welty; copyright renewed © 1967. Reprinted by the permission of Russell & Volkening as agents for Eudora Welty LLC.