Appalachian Echoes
Thomas E. Douglass, series fiction editor
Very real and tremendously moving. . . . Not only an obvious brief for the unfortunate but a well told and honest story. New York Times
Hubert Skidmore, a native West Virginian, wrote as a witness from inside the belly of the beast. His gift is for pitch-perfect dialogue, a varied cast of characters, and the calling up of emotion, of anger, fear, dread, and love. To encounter this novel at last is a sort of resurrection, both for its persecuted author and the Depression poor whose lives it evokes. Denise Giardina,...