Books
THE WORLD ITSELF (2027)
Stricken with terminal cancer from his work cleaning up a historic coal ash spill years earlier, Joseph Quillen is trying to come to terms with the end of his life. But as he prepares to say goodbye, his adult son suddenly disappears. At the same time, the man responsible for the toxic conditions of the cleanup also vanishes. Fearing a connection between the two, and that his son may be pursuing an act of environmental revenge, Joseph is forced back into the life he has been trying to leave behind. Joined by his estranged wife, Grace, he searches through the woods and back roads of their small Tennessee community, piecing together clues that suggest a path toward violence—and irreversible loss
Released on June 15, 2027
A YEAR WITHOUT MONTHS (2022)
IPPY SILVER MEDAL Best Non-fiction in the Southeast
This collection of fourteen essays by Charles Dodd White—praised by Silas House as “one of the best prose stylists of Appalachian literature”—explores the boundaries of family, loss, masculinity, and place. Contemplating the suicides of his father, uncle, and son, White meditates on what it means to continue on when seemingly everything worth living for is lost. What he discovers is an intimate connection to the natural world, a renewed impulse to understand his troubled family history, and a devotion to following the clues that point to the possibility of a whole life.
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HOW FIRE RUNS: A Novel (2020)
SIBA Okra Pick
IPPY GOLD MEDAL Best Fiction in the South
Set in rural Appalachia and told through the voices of three different present-day narrators, this harrowing novel about white supremacists attempting to take over a small town focuses an unflinching eye on America’s ongoing, fraught relationship with racial and political injustice.
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IN THE HOUSE OF WILDERNESS: A Novel (2018)
(WINNER OF APPALACHIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR)
Appalachian Writers Association
After months of wandering homeless through the landscape of Appalachia, a young woman named Rain finds herself part of a desperate family driven by exploitation and abuse. In the House of Wilderness is a novel about the modern South and how we fight through hardship and grief to find a way home.
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A SHELTER OF OTHERS: A Novel (2014)
Reissued 2022
Following his release from prison, Mason Laws returns to the mountains of his youth where his estranged wife, Lavada, has been caring for his ailing father in Mason's absence. As Mason and Lavada each set forth to recover themselves, they remain entrenched in the rural and rugged landscape that bore them and their own haunted histories. This moving story tells of the families we're born into, the families we make for ourselves, and how tightly woven are the ties that bind.
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LAMBS OF MEN: A Novel (2010) Reissued 2022
Returning from the horrors of the First World War to recruit volunteers in his remote Appalachian home, Marine Sergeant Hiram Tobit finds the country changed. His mother has committed suicide, dredging up old resentments between Hiram and his father, Sloane. When a gruesome act of violence stuns the insular mountain community, father and son must journey together to see justice carried out while coming to terms with a deeply troubled family history.
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