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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Two orphaned sisters, one Pentecostal, one wild, must raise each other and themselves in the mountains of post-WWII Kentucky.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In World War II-era rural Kentucky, twenty-two-year-old Easter and Anneth, her teenaged sister, lose their parents young, so they must raise each other. Easter finds her life in the Pentecostal Holiness church and its music, while Anneth dances and drinks in less-than-holy honky-tonks. Will the differences in their young lives and in their very natures tear them apart or will the bond of the sisters prevail? In lucid prose with an ear for the voice of the sisters' time and place, Silas House brings readers a rich and moving story of coal country.</p> <p>This novel was named The Appalachian Book of the Year, and was a finalist for the Southern Book Critics Circle Prize.</p> <p>Blair brings this novel into a beautiful new paperback edition, along with two other Silas House novels, <i>Clay's Quilt</i> and <i>A Parchment of Leaves</i>. The three novels, which share a common setting and some characters, are companion novels. They may be read individually, in any order, but collectively, they form a rich tableau of life in rural mountain Kentucky in the last century.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"House is a master...a writer of startling abilities." --<i>The Atlanta Journal-Constitution</i></p> <p>"Lovely and cadenced...starkly beautiful.: " --<i>Booklist</i></p> <p>"Lovely." --<i>USA Today</i></p> <p>"House's beautiful third novel is both a story of survival and sacrifice and a stirring testament to the love of the land." --<i>BookPage</i></p> <p>"A gentle tale with appealingly flawed people and an exquisite sense of the quotidian." --<i>Kirkus Reviews</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Silas House is the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of six novels, one book of creative nonfiction, and three plays. His writing has appeared frequently in the <i>New York Times</i> and has been published in <i>Time</i>, <i>Newsday</i>, <i>Garden and Gun</i>, <i>Oxford American</i>, and many other places. House is the winner of an E.B. White Award, the Nautilus Award, the Intellectual Freedom Prize from the National Council of Teachers of English, the Storylines Prize from the New York Public Library/NAV Foundation, and many other honors, as well as being long listed for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. He teaches at Berea College and in the Spalding University School of Writing.

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