Description
In these haunting stories, Appalachia exerts a magnetic, sometimes merciless pull—drawing people back to the mountains even as hope slips away. With suspense threaded through myth and memory, characters confront loss, longing, and the strange comfort of returning to what hurts, including a child who keeps finding a downed plane and returning to its silent company. Ron Rash’s language moves with “shimmering, liquid poetry,” turning everyday lives into lyrical reckonings with grief, survival, and the stories communities tell to endure. Across the collection, the past is never past: it lingers in the landscape, shaping identity and testing what it means to leave—and what it costs to come back.
Available Editions
paperback
Ecco, an imprint for HarperCollinsPublishers
Published Jan 1, 2014
434 pages
ISBN: 9780062349347
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Details
First Published
2014
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Something Rich and Strange by Ron Rash.