The Current That Carries: Stories

by Lisa Graley

Book Overview

This collection bristles and hums with the rugged resilience one encounters in southern and Appalachian fiction where ghosts of loved ones and livestock alike haunt an underworld of lonely trails. Set in West Virginia, the stories take up residence with rural characters who defend their mailboxes against teenagers, bathe and feed their bedridden elders, and circle the inflated orbs of love and desire in high school gymnasiums. Whole lifetimes flare...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820354724
• ISBN13: 9780820354729
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"