Description
In this gritty collection set in an unnamed Appalachian community, life is shaped by hard labor, hard luck, and the thin line between desperation and survival. Coal miners, backwoods medicine men, gamblers, and marijuana farmers move through a landscape of poverty and consequence, where tragedy arrives without warning and the strange feels disturbingly ordinary. With Offutt’s authentic, unsentimental voice, each story captures the region’s rough rhythms and moral complexity—people trying to endure, to heal, or to get by, even when the world won’t offer mercy. These tales explore themes of survival, violence, faith and folk healing, and the ways communities endure when hope is scarce.
Available Editions
paperback
Vintage Books
Published Jan 1, 1992
167 pages
ISBN: 9780679738862
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First Published
1992
Language
eng
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