A deep love for home suffuses this heartfelt, well-crafted debut novel set in the Kentucky hills. Clay Sizemore, a young coal miner from a big family and a small town, never doubts that he will live out his life in the place where he was born. His...
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Silas House, Author . Algonquin $23.95 (278p) ISBN 978-1-56512-367-0
House offers a poignant, evocative look at the turmoil that plagues a rural Kentucky family during WWI in his solid second novel, which begins when Saul Sullivan takes a shine to a mysterious, beautiful Cherokee woman named Vine. Courtship quickly...
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Silas House, Author . Algonquin $24.95 (324p) ISBN 978-1-56512-368-7
Evocative prose and unforgettable characters mark this haunting novel from House, a Kentucky writer who mines the storytelling tradition of Appalachia. Set in the 1960s, the novel functions as a prequel of sorts to House's award-winning book...
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Silas House, Author . Candlewick $16.99 (295p) ISBN 978-0-7636-4341-6
In his YA debut, adult author House tells the story of a smalltown family reeling from the Vietnam War. The narrator, Eli Book, describes the summer of 1976, when he was 10 years old, with the hindsight and perspective that adulthood brings (“I
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Silas House and Neela Vaswani. Candlewick, $15.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7636-5684-3
Even better than reading a refreshingly honest story by one talented writer is reading one by two such writers. House (Eli the Good) and adult author Vaswani (Where the Long Grass Bends) alternate between the voices of Meena—a 12-year-old girl who...
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Silas House, Author, Jason Howard, Author, Lee Smith, Foreword by University Press of Kentucky $27.95 (306p) ISBN 978-0-8131-2546-6
Novelist House (Clay's Quilt) and Kentucky journalist Howard, both ""children of Appalachia,"" decided to pick up where the national media have left off in their environmental obsession, illuminating the long-growing mining crisis in Central...
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Silas House. Algonquin, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-61620-625-3
House (Eli the Good) tackles themes of forced change and faith succumbing to fear in this suspenseful narrative about a father and son navigating personal and spiritual upheaval. After years of work and worship in a rural Tennessee evangelical...
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Silas House. Algonquin, $27 (288p) ISBN 978-1-64375-159-7
In this brutal yet hopeful dystopian, House (Southernmost) creates a day-after-tomorrow scenario in which fires have devastated the globe, the U.S. has been taken over by religious extremists called the Fundies, and Ireland has become a place of...
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