Fiction. In Laurelville, Ohio--a small town in the foothills of the
Appalachians--nobody knows why Hannah Marshal drowned in Laurel
Creek in 1937. Over two decades later, her niece, Ruth Sherman,
takes it upon herself to find out. As she ispressed by her
grandmother to learn the folk cures and healing rituals of
Appalachian Christianity and armed with only a few rumors, old
newspapers clipping and even some ghost stories about her aunt,
Ruth begins to uncover the events surrounding Hannah's death.
Twenty-one year old Ruth finds herself on a journey into the past,
the traditions of a southern-Ohio Pentecostal church, and the
shadowy side of the Holy Ghost among serpent handlers. On the
journey, Ruth discovers her own spiritual gifts and uncovers the
unspoken shame in her family."Healings. Snake handlers. Stills.
Quotes from the Bible. Family feuds. Chicken coops. Speaking in
tongues. Indian medicine bags. Laying outs. Intergenerational
rivalry. Forty lashes of hot wax. Old-fashioned tent revivals.
Michael Olin-Hitt, in THE HOMEGOING, has, with skillful writing and
a true knowledge of home, combined the aura of the
mid-twentieth-century Appalachia of southern Ohio with the puzzle
of a mysterious disappearance and the solving of a family mystery.
Read and enjoy."--Jane Piirto, author of SAUNAS
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