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Abstract: Change: it's something we confront, and it's something we carry with us, in our pockets, inside us. Although the notion of change arguably appears to varying degrees in nearly every piece of prose, it is especially present in the fiction and creative nonfiction we have collected in this issue of Appalachian Review.The theme even lends itself to the title of Gavin Colton's "Little Piles of Change," a tender short story set in Ireland with themes that reverberate throughout Appalachian culture. A working-class man is struggling to keep his family financially and emotionally afloat while navigating the changes brought about by mid-life. His wife has lost her job; his kids are growing up, their tastes evolving. Time is ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Colly was having a pint with Pat in Kavanagh's after work. Pat had won twenty euro on a scratcher that morning and Colly knew it had been burning a hole in his pocket all day, that he'd be gunning for a pint. Colly was happy not to be going home right away."Nicole's back on the smokes," Colly said."She's not.""She is. Since losing the job.""Bernie said about the job, it's terrible," Pat said."The smoking or the job'""The job. The smoking too.""It's been two weeks now. I had to tell the girls not to say anything to her. They were looking at YouTube videos and saying they were worried about their Ma because she was smoking. They think she's going to die.""Doesn't help with those warnings on the boxes, scaring people. ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: November 1, 2016—Because of the danger of wildfire, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park has temporarily banned all backcountry fires.East Tennessee is in the midst of a drought, and with the falling leaves now on the ground, the danger of wildfire is very high. Thousands of acres have burned across the state in the last few weeks because of the extremely dry conditions, and last weekend, the U.S. Forest Service implemented strict fire restrictions in the Cherokee National Forest which limits fires in undeveloped areas.'With the current drought conditions, it is imperative that we reduce the risk of human-caused wildfires during this period of extreme fire danger,' said Superintendent Cassius Cash. 'The park ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: As a child growing up in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the 1950s and 1960s, Marianne Worthington was surrounded and subsumed by country music. Her parents often tuned their television set to WATE, the local station that aired Knoxville businessman-turned-mayor Cas Walker's Farm and Home Hour variety show, which featured established and rising stars including The Everly Brothers, Chet Atkins, Roy Acuff, Carl Smith, Bill Monroe, and perhaps most famously, a talented young girl from Locust Ridge in neighboring Sevier County. Dolly Parton captivated the young Worthington, whose keen musical and poetic ear was already being tuned to a special kind of frequency: the particular blend of power and vulnerability woven into ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: He walked along the weed-stubbled shoulder of the road, carrying a paper sack with two cans of sweet corn and a dead rat. His shoulders were slumped in towards his chest, and moonlight fell on the budding hunch of his back. Though the sun had long retired behind the white pines, the heat had yet to dissipate, making his hairline and armpits damp with sweat. This was summertime, when the air stayed hot all night, like a simmering broth of molten lead, any breeze nothing more than a ladle that stirred the heat around. This was Georgia.He was still wearing his tan visor and apron, with its little plastic name badge that read Wade's Good Friend EARL. His name wasn't really Earl. But Wade—of Wade's Food and Grocery, a ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: "As much as she loved Waycross, she hated cancer ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The roads end At motels.Inns are not residences.Some folks say a family business "gets in the blood." But they're usually mum on how many generations it requires, or how many decades it takes for the blood to drain, drop by drop, as the puddle beneath your sneakers congeals into a clot of unconfirmed stories. My grandfather is a dozen years dead, my grandmother's a summer gone, my father's over seventy. Poking around their family business, I'm finding that folks also fail to add that toxins "get in the blood," too.My family's business began with a restaurant that's eroding from my kin's memory. All that remains is a name: Tiny Town. This crack in our origin story may've been caused by a shift in our foundation ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: "This book is part dance, part song, and part shine of the moon," McDaniel writes on the dedication page to her mother, Betty, namesake and inspiration for a novel whose narrative dances with multiple histories—familial, cultural, and regional, sings with lyrical prose, and moves through the woods of a young woman's life, partially illuminating the traumas and their impact therein.Betty spins out from the Carpenter family's origin—her parents coupling in a cemetery in Appalachian Ohio. Betty Carpenter is a middle child of eight children, and after a quick marriage, the family wanders around the country for several years before heading back home to Breathed, Ohio. McDaniel writes, "In her most wholesome form ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi writes of pain and loss so vividly the reader feels it, as if they are actually experiencing it themselves. Gifty, the narrator, is conducting research on mice as a PhD candidate in neuroscience while also tending to and worrying about her depressed mother who rarely gets out of bed. Stories from Gifty's past are interspersed with moments from the present day. The scenes from her past are not in chronological order. Instead, they are more thoughtfully given to readers to keep us wanting more. Her story begins before she was born, when her mother and father meet in Ghana.Gifty's father is only ever referred to as the Chin Chin Man, a name he earned for the deep-fried snacks made ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-03T00:00:00-05:00
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