Landfall

A Ring of Stories

By: Julie Hensley

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Paperback | 15 April 2016

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230 Pages

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22.86 x 15.24 x 1.32

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In this ring of connected short stories, grounded in the fictional town of Conrad's Fork, Kentucky, everyone is staging some sort of escape. A woman harboring the dark truth about her youngest daughter's birth, a new teacher suddenly under suspicion after a student's disappearance, a young girl witnessing her older sister's sexual awakening: all the people in this Appalachian community suffer a paralyzed desire in response to the stagnancy and exposure they experience in their small town. Landfall: A Ring of Stories weaves together the voices of two generations of mountain families in which secrets are carefully guarded-even from closest kin. One by one, those who leave confront the pull of the land and the people they've left behind. Perhaps Conrad's Fork will save them, or, perhaps, in the wake of urban encroachment and shifting family systems, they will save it.

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"In Landfall, Julie Hensley has created an Appalachian community populated with people I've come to know as neighbors, whose loves and losses feel like my own. It's easy to forget that Conrad's Fork is a fictional place and that, as vividly as their intertwined lives are rendered on the page, these are fictional characters. It's hard to stop reading as Hensley unravels in masterful prose the ties that bind them to each other and home. Landfall is a beautiful book, and Julie Hensley is an immensely gifted writer to watch. --Amy Greene

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