"Without love, there is only a great empty space that we fill with whatever's handy."Fierce, endearing, and powerful. Serious southern literary-fiction along a converging vein of: Harper Lee, Hemingway, and Eudora Welty - except within the gritty parameters of hardscrabble Appalachia in the early...
The author's first person style is immediately powerful, tugging, dragging you (sometimes by the scruff of the neck and despite tired eyes) into the story of the hard life of a strange family in Depression era rural Kentucky. Each character is as finely crafted as a sculpture rich in texture and...