num_pages: 96
description: Eight short stories include the title story, in which the twenty-one-year-old widow Higbee matches wits with a preacher who inquires about the tithe on the double-indemnity insurance she recently collected
language: English
title: The Widow's Mite
titlecomplete: The Widow's Mite (Contemporary American Fiction)
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Southern
ratings_count: 347
publisher: Penguin Books