In 1680s colonial America a group of displaced women—bound together by servitude, isolation, and survival—weather the devastating psychological wounds of institutionalized racism and gender oppression.
Review – The Stories of Breece D’J Pancake
A landmark collection of short stories, published posthumously, following the author’s tragic suicide, that captures his raw, gritty, and relentlessly bleak perception of rural Appalachia.
Review – The Devil All the Time
In the rural Midwest, a traumatized WWII veteran, a pair of highway serial killers, and corrupt preachers collide as an orphaned young man fights to protect his family from a cycle of dark violence and religious fanaticism.
Review – Give us a Kiss
When a spiralling Ozark-born writer heads home for a reset after the collapse of his marriage, he gets sucked into a dangerous family marijuana-growing operation run by a seductive matriarch and her provocative teenage daughter.
Review – Outer Dark
After her brother abandons their newborn in the woods and lies about its death, a desperate young Appalachian woman sets out to find her baby while her guilt-ridden brother flees across a bleak, violent landscape.