Unbroken Circle: Stories of Cultural Diversity in the South (Appalachian Writing) - Softcover

Offutt, Chris; Willis, Meredith Sue; White, Charles Dodd; Mann, Jeff; Argiri, Laura; Lippincott Et. Al, Robbin; Napier, Okey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 093308773X ISBN 13: 9780933087736

Publisher: Bottom Dog Press, 2017

Synopsis

In turbulent times, what we need is possibility, and in this rich gathering of diverse voices, Watts and Smith give us just that. A girl molds clay against her deaf brothers ears to heal him. A gay man finds his Appalachian clan in a dark world. These are stories and essays about the blues, about poverty, about families lost and made. Unbroken Circle is about broken and unbroken lives, and ultimately, hope. Karen Salyer McElmurray, author of Surrendered Child.....................
One of the goals of Unbroken Circle is to subvert stereotypesto show that Southern people are not simply shoeless, rural white people. We are a people as varied as the Southern landscape, from the mountains of Appalachia to the deltas of Mississippi to the skyscrapers of Atlanta. We are black, white, Latino, Native American, Middle Eastern, Asian, and multiracial. We are Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Wiccan, atheist and agnostic. We are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, straight, and questioning. We are urban and rural, old and young, poor and rich, and all points in between. We are all these things, plus more that dont fit into neat categories.

The voices in this collection represent some of the diverse voices of our region, just a few spoonfuls from the giant pot of gumbo that makes up our region. Julia Watts (Introduction)

About this title

Book Description:

Unbroken Circle: Stories

From the Inside Flap:

26 contemporary stories of cultural diversity from the South by 26 authors, edited by fiction writer-editors Julia Watts and Larry Smith

About this edition

• Publisher: Bottom Dog Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 093308773X
• ISBN 13: 9780933087736
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Watts Julia, Smith Larry