A Parchment of Leaves (Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series) - Hardcover

House, Silas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786249978 ISBN 13: 9780786249978

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2002

Synopsis

In 1917, a Cherokee woman who leaves her community to marry a white man finds herself isolated and discriminated against as she tries to settle in to her new life.

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Review

A beautiful, heartbreaking novel, so vividly imagined and told that it stays with you, powerfully, long after you ve read it. . . . Silas House writes as if the whole history of his place and people resides within his heart.
BRAD WATSON
National Book Award Finalist

Winner of the Award for Special Achievement from the Fellowship of Southern Writers
A SEAMLESS WORK OF FICTION, entrancing in the manner of a vivid dream . . . The novel is steeped in details of place the sounds, smells, and quality of light in House s native Kentucky.
Newsday

An eloquent and moving novel of the Appalachian South from one of her most promising new writers.
SHARYN MCCRUMB
Author of The Songcatcher
Breathtaking for both its beauty and its pain . . . A superb combination of wonder and suffering.
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
One of the truest and most exciting new voices in American fiction.
ROBERT MORGAN
Author of Gap Creek
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"A beautiful, heartbreaking novel, so vividly imagined and told that it stays with you, powerfully, long after you've read it. . . . Silas House writes as if the whole history of his place and people resides within his heart."
--BRAD WATSON
National Book Award Finalist

Winner of the Award for Special Achievement from the Fellowship of Southern Writers

"A SEAMLESS WORK OF FICTION, entrancing in the manner of a vivid dream . . . The novel is steeped in details of place--the sounds, smells, and quality of light in House's native Kentucky."
--Newsday

"An eloquent and moving novel of the Appalachian South from one of her most promising new writers."
--SHARYN MCCRUMB
Author of The Songcatcher

"Breathtaking for both its beauty and its pain . . . A superb combination of wonder and suffering."
--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"One of the truest and most exciting new voices in American fiction."
--ROBERT MORGAN
Author of Gap Creek

About the Author

Silas House is the author of Clay's Quilt, A Parchment of Leaves, The Coal Tattoo, Eli the Good, Same Sun Here (co-authored with Neela Vaswani, 2012); three plays, The Hurting Part, Long Time Travelling, This Is My Heart For You; and Something's Rising, a creative nonfiction book about social protest co-authored with Jason Howard. House was selected to edit the posthumous manuscript of acclaimed writer James Still, Chinaberry. House was born and raised in Eastern Kentucky. He is the father of two daughters and has three dogs: Rufus, Holly, and Pepper. He divides his time between London and Berea, Kentucky.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0786249978
• ISBN 13: 9780786249978
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400