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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 … More...

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 di 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 schemes to start a new life in Texas. 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. Fiction & Literature, , Out of Peel Tree~~ Laura Long~~Fiction & Literature~~9781940425016, en, Out of Peel Tree, Laura Long, 9781940425016, Vandalia Press, 04/01/2014, , , , Vandalia Press, 04/01/2014<

ISBN: 9781940425016

Laura Long,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by West Virginia University Press on 04-01-2014 EBooks Books ~~ Fiction~~ General Out-of-Peel-Tree~~Laura-Long West Virginia Uni… More...

Laura Long,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by West Virginia University Press on 04-01-2014 EBooks Books ~~ Fiction~~ General Out-of-Peel-Tree~~Laura-Long West Virginia University Press<

ISBN: 9781940425016

Out of Peel Tree Out-of-Peel-Tree~~Laura-Long Fiction>Fiction>Fiction NOOK Book (eBook), West Virginia University Press

2014, ISBN: 9781940425016

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