On a bone-chilling New Year's Day, when all the mountain roads are slick with ice, Clay's mother, Anneth, insists on leaving her husband. She packs her things, and with three-year-old Clay in tow, they inch their way toward her hometown along the tre...
When Silas House made his debut with Clay's Quilt last year, it touched a nerve not just in his home state (where it quickly became a bestseller), but all across the country. Glowing reviews-from USA Today (House is letter-perfect with his first nove...
Two sisters can't stand to live together, but can't bear to be apart. One worships the flashy world of Nashville, the other is a devout Pentecostal. One falls into the lap of any man, the other is afraid to even date. One gets pregnant in a flash, th...
This is a book of beautiful writing that is, simultaneously, an insightful volume about the art of writing. In the various sections of THE HURTING PART: EVOLUTION OF AN AMERICAN PLAY, Silas House (author of A Parchment Of Leaves, Clay's Quilt, The Co...
Bicentennial fireworks burn the sky. Bob Seger growls from a transistor radio. And down by the river, girls line up on lawn chairs in pursuit of the perfect tan. Yet for ten-year-old Eli Book, the summer of 1976 will go down as the one that threatene...
“Southernmost engages my most deeply hidden fears and hopes . . . I love this book, and for it, I love Silas House.” -- Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina Asher Sharp is willing to give up everything for what he believe...
Winner of the Southern Book Prize for Fiction * Winner of a Nautilus Award (Gold)A timely, powerful story of survival set in the not-too-distant future that Margaret Renkl (Late Migrations) calls “a beautiful book...shot through with suc...