Sheryl Monks's Monsters in Appalachia: Stories PDF

By Sheryl Monks

ISBN-10: 1943665397

ISBN-13: 9781943665396

The characters inside those fifteen tales are in a single method or one other staring into the abyss. whereas a few are waiting for redemption, others are totally complicit of their personal undoing.

 

We encounter them within the mountains of West Virginia, within the backyards of rural North Carolina, and at vacationer traps alongside direction sixty six, the place they smolder with hidden wishes and fight to withstand the enticements that plague them.

 

A Melungeon girl has killed her abusive husband and drives by way of the house of her son’s new foster kin, hoping to entice the boy again. An aged couple witnesses the end-times and is pressured to seek monsters in the event that they wish to outlive. a tender woman “tanning and manning” along with her mom and aunt resists being indoctrinated through their rules approximately males. A preacher’s daughter follows within the footsteps of her backsliding mom as she seduces a guy who appears to be like much just like the devil.

 

A grasp of Appalachian dialect and colloquial speech, priests writes prose that's darkish, taut, and muscular, but additionally beguiling and playful. Monsters in Appalachia is a robust paintings of fiction.

 

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