Out of Peel Tree

ISBN-13: 9781940425009 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 148 str.

Laura Long

Opis

Moving through time and space, "Out of Peel Tree" unfolds the patterns of an Appalachian sensibility that reverberate everywhere: a fatalism balanced by humor and flinty, hard-won hope, an appreciation for the surprises of the everyday, and a search for love and home amid strange and familiar places and people.

This innovative debut novel reveals the lives of a far-flung contemporary Appalachian family through a web of delicate turning points. A child discovers a grandmother she never knew has died. A runaway teen faces abandonment by a boyfriend. A man on parole falls hopelessly in love with a shoplifter. A woman receives a letter about her husband's other wife. An old woman confronts a burglar with the help of her ghost-husband.

United by a connection to their matriarch, these characters search at home and beyond to make a fresh sense of their changing lives. As a novel in stories, "Out of Peel Tree" brings a new lyricism to the page and a new voice to American and Appalachian literature--a voice deeply inflected by the beauty of the natural world and by working-class grit.