When a mysterious epidemic of blindness strikes her city, a seemingly immune woman fakes blindness to accompany her husband into a brutal quarantine as society collapses around them.
Tag: literary fiction
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.
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.
Review – Smothermoss
When a brutal murder of two hikers awakens a dark, supernatural presence on an Appalachian mountain, two impoverished, estranged half-sisters must unite to confront their own personal hauntings and hunt down a real-world fugitive.