Donald Harington

Butterfly Weed (1996)

‘Butterfly Weed’ takes the form of a novelist speaking with a retired folklorist at his nursing home. The folklorist stumbled into Stay More with typhoid and was nursed back to health by Doc Swain. Doc Swain was cut from the womb of his mother by his biological father who killed his parents and g...

The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks (2004)

Cockroaches of Staymore (2004)

The Choiring of the Trees (2005)

This is in my Top 5 Favorite Books of all time, and in terms of style, musicality and story technique, one of the best books in the English language. This book should be required reading for anyone interested in the human condition. It entertains while it breaks your heart; it induces fever-pit...