Blogs in August 2020

All the Living 11th August 2020

Aloma is an orphan, raised by her aunt and uncle, educated at a mission school in the Kentucky mountains. At the start of the novel, she moves to an isolated tobacco farm to be with her lover, a young...

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Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains 2nd January 2020

After rising from poverty to earn two Ivy League degrees, an Appalachian lawyer pays tribute to the strong “hill women” who raised and inspired her, and whose values have the potential to rejuvenate a struggling region–an uplifting and eye-opening...

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Looking For Ireland: An Irish-Appalachian Pilgrimage 31st July 2017

Journey from Appalachia to Ireland in Looking For Ireland: An Irish-Appalachian Pilgrimage. Both chapbook and a work of art, her book creates a seamless alchemy of elegant poems and stunning photographs. “In one of the poems in her luminous...

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Flight Behavior 14th April 2017

Flight Behavior is a brilliant and suspenseful novel set in present day Appalachia; a breathtaking parable of catastrophe and denial that explores how the complexities we inevitably encounter in life lead us to believe in our particular chosen truths....

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The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap 24th January 2016

Wendy Welch and her husband had always dreamed of owning a bookstore, so when they left high-octane jobs for a simpler life in an Appalachian coal town, they seized an unexpected opportunity to pursue their dream. The only problems?...

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