A collection of short stories that memorably capture American life in
rural Appalachia by Breece D'J Pancake, the brilliant writer praised by
Joyce Carol Oates as "a young writer of such extraordinary gifts that
one is tempted to compare his debut to Hemingway's."
Breece D'J Pancake cut short a promising career when he took his own
life at the age twenty-six. Published posthumously, this is a collection
of stories that depict the world of Pancake's native rural West Virginia
with astonishing power and grace.
"Breece D'J Pancake's is an exceptional voice: gritty, mordant,
invested with the texture of stroked reality, urgent, and haunting."
--Margaret Atwood