Unbroken Circle: Stories of Cultural Diversity in the South - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 093308773X ISBN 13: 9780933087736

Casa editrice: Bottom Dog Pr, 2017

Riassunto

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 brother?s 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 stereotypes?to 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 don?t 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)

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

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FEAST OF THE SUN

By Charles Dodd White



She hunts always at dawn, having followed the footpath between the tall chicory and wind jostled walls of river cane. Daylight is a perturbed omen in this first hour. Not the lusty blue of midday nor the burnt ooze of eventide. Instead, a gradual slide from granite to calcite, everything above her a kind of mineral reckoning. She covers ground, counts off her steps against a mental map, figures distance and the likely carry of the rifle?s report to her father?s trailer. He left for work long before she took his scoped Marlin and stepped into the woods, but she will not risk anything unforeseen. This is her secret, and to surrender it before its time would upend the great care she?d taken, profane her earned truth.



At her hip rides the small trophy purse, unclenched and open as a mouth. She had washed it clean after each hunt, but still the scent of blood lingers. As she walks deeper into the woods, her fingers play absently at the slack pouch lips. These same fingers, so light at the touch, would be enough to drag down what tenanted the sky, to kill with the absolute steadiness of hate.

She comes to the river ford, grounds the rifle butt in the sand and watches the water roll. The dam has not yet been let go and the current smooths itself over the rocky bed, clear and governed. At the bend of the river a fishing cabin above the water, but there is no one visible on the overhanging deck and the interior lights are not on. She raises the rifle above her head, like she?s seen soldiers do in her history book, and steps into the water. It needles her skin, but she warms to it quickly, moves along the flat stones, cautious of the slick edges, remembering the previous crossings and how she had once fallen in. The time the rifle had gone in too and she had scrambled after it before it was lost in the river?s quick shedding. She had turned back that morning without making it across, broken the weapon down to its bare components and salved them with a clean coat of gun oil to prevent rust.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Bottom Dog Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 093308773X
• ISBN 13: 9780933087736
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 191
• Redattore: Watts Julia, Smith Larry
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile