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"Annabel Thomas with her heartfelt, supremely wise, and often funny trio of novellas here is my new favorite writer, and I expect it will be a while before anyone comes along to take her place." Donald Ray Pollock, author of The Devil All the Time

Fiction. In Laurelville, Ohio--a small town in the foothills of the Appalachians--nobody knows why Hannah Marshal drowned in Laurel Creek in 1937. Over two decades later, her niece, Ruth Sherman, takes it upon herself to find out. As she ispressed by her grandmother to learn the folk cures and healing rituals of Appalachian Christianity and armed with only a few rumors, old newspapers clipping and even some ghost stories about her aunt, Ruth begins to uncover the events surrounding Hannah's death. Twenty-one year old Ruth finds herself on a journey into the past, the traditions of a southern-Ohio Pentecostal church, and the shadowy side of the Holy Ghost among serpent handlers. On the journey, Ruth discovers her own spiritual gifts and uncovers the unspoken shame in her family."Healings. Snake handlers. Stills. Quotes from the Bible. Family feuds. Chicken coops. Speaking in tongues. Indian medicine bags. Laying outs. Intergenerational rivalry. Forty lashes of hot wax. Old-fashioned tent revivals. Michael Olin-Hitt, in THE HOMEGOING, has, with skillful writing and a true knowledge of home, combined the aura of the mid-twentieth-century Appalachia of southern Ohio with the puzzle of a mysterious disappearance and the solving of a family mystery. Read and enjoy."--Jane Piirto, author of SAUNAS

26 contemporary stories of cultural diversity from the South by 26 authors, edited by fiction writer-editors Julia Watts and Larry Smith

Here is a fine book that dares to look into the heart of the personage of American abolitionist John Brown. Using all of the tools he can imagine Craig Paulenich plunges into the heart of the man and of America.

Fiction. 1948: Wanted: a good family for a Scott County, Kentucky tenant farm. Rudy Johnson moves his young family from nearby Lexington. Only the farm owners weren't expecting the good family to be "colored." "Joe Anthony refuses to treat his characters with less than the respect such complex individuals deserve, their depth and humanity so exposed. Anthony's skillful interweaving of many narrative voices allows us to feel their pain and sorrow, their prejudice and greed and lack of guile. Flawed and only sometimes heroic, they are fellow travelers with no map of the terrain before them."--David Thurman Miller, Appalachian Heritage