Three brothers from the Virginia hills navigate a moonshine war waged by crooked prohibition-era cops while a fading journalist tries to convince the participants and their neighbors to reveal the truth about what is happening.
Category: Book Reviews
Review – Yellow Wife
In the antebellum South, a biracial enslaved woman must barter love and freedom while surviving as the unofficial wife of Virginia’s most infamous slave jailer.
Review – What Moves the Dead
In this retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher, a nonbinary military officer tries to understand what is controlling and moving the dead or dying, including local wildlife and his best friend’s sister.
Review – A Mercy
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.