Hamfast County Hymnal: Stories

By Jessica B. Weisenfels

Hamfast County Hymnal is a love letter to the Ozarks. This collection of loosely-linked short stories offers a close look at a vibrant fictional county in Arkansas that grounds itself in rich, detailed characters and their intertwining tales of travail, grief, heartbreak, and longing. From all that trouble and suffering, from illnesses of mind, body, and spirit, rises a stunning snapshot of a place brimming with life and potential, peopled by folks who deserve the hope and resilience they find in their own stories and in each other's. In this book you'll find a wife who feeds her husband to pigs and a grandmother who shoots an abuser. You'll hear who's been to rehab, who's having an affair, and the story of how a bird saves a woman's life on the day she kills her husband. These vivid tableaus will invite you to explore loss, grief, and those tendrils of budding hope through fictional characters who will stay with you long after you turn the last page.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08GVGMSQ2
• ISBN13: 9798680068007
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"