Journalist Dennis Covington documents the case of Glenn Summerford, arrested and tried for murdering his wife with rattlesnakes. On Sand Mountain, Covington found he discovered the similarities between himself and the devotees of snake-handling, strychnine-drinking religions so quickly it was disturbing to him. This book was voted by the "Voice ...
Told in the authors' alternating voices, "Cleaving" is both the story and the understory of a marriage. After their marriage begins to fall apart, Vicki and Dennis embark on a mission to dig wells in Central America, assuaging a spiritual thirst by addressing a practical need.
From the author of the National Book Award finalist, "Salvation on Sand Mountain," a quixotic, comic account of one man's quest for a small piece of the American Dream.
Seventeen-year-old April Hunter is restablishing her relationship with her father, a cardiologist and recovering alcoholic. She meets and falls in love with one of his patients, Fernando, who turns out to be an illegal immigrant from El Salvador. As she gets to know Fernando, and learns of the horrors of his live in El Salvador, April develops ...
Told in the authors' alternating voices, "Cleaving" is both the story and the understory of a marriage. After their marriage begins to fall apart, Vicki and Dennis embark on a mission to dig wells in Central America, assuaging a spiritual thirst by addressing a practical need.
Thirteen-year-old Lucius Sims looks more like a reptile than a human being: his sea-green eyes are more on one side of his head and his nose lies on its side. Repelled by Lizard's appearance, his guardian sends him to a school for retarded boys. Escaping with a man who claims to be his father, Lizard finally is given a chance to find himself, in ...
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