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Lambs of Men (Paperback)
Charles Dodd White
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A chilling, timely reminder of the moral and human costs of racial
hatred. What happens when a delusional white supremacist and his
army of followers decide to create a racially pure "Little Europe"
within a rural Tennessee community? As the town's residents grapple
with their new reality, minor skirmishes escalate and dirty
politics, scandals, and a cataclysmic chain of violence follows. In
this uncanny reflection of our time, award-winning novelist Charles
Dodd White asks whether Americans can save themselves from their
worst impulses and considers the consequences when this salvation
comes too late.
Rain is a young woman under the influence of a charismatic drifter
named Wolf and his other "wife," Winter. Through months of
wandering homeless through the cities, small towns, and landscape
of Appalachia, the trio have grown into a kind of desperate family,
a family driven by exploitation and abuse. A family that Rain must
escape. When she meets Stratton Bryant, a widower living alone in
an old east Tennessee farmhouse, Rain is given the chance to see a
bigger world and find herself a place within it. But Wolf will not
let her part easily. When he demands loyalty and obedience, the
only way out is through an episode of violence that will leave
everyone involved permanently damaged. A harrowing story of choice
and sacrifice, Charles Dodd White's 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.
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 go 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. Avoiding
easy sentiment and cliche, White's transformative language drives
toward renewal. A Year without Months introduces lively and
memorable characters, as the author draws on a wide range of
emotions to analyze everything, including himself.
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