South of Resurrection (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of South of Resurrection Saturday, August 1 2009.

• At the age of sixteen, Moline Bedwell fled her hometown of Resurrection, Missouri, and never looked back. Now, twenty years later, she's intent on returning to Resurrection to take care of some family business. But what started out as a short visit turns increasingly complex as Moline confronts the ghosts of her past and contends with the impact of the present on her dying hometown: she struggles to save her family's pig farm from the greedy clutches of an agriculture conglomerate, and she resumes her passionate affair with Dayrell Bell, the wild hillbilly boy she abandoned all those years ago. Jonis Agee takes us into the hearts and minds of a community on the verge of extinction and introduces us to characters so vivid and memorable that we feel as if we've known them all our lives. In South of Resurrection, Agee's intensely beautiful writing proves yet again why The New York Times calls her a "gifted poet of that dark lushness in the heart of the American landscape."

Shelfari edited the contributors of South of Resurrection Friday, July 24 2009.

• Added a contributor: Jonis Agee: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of South of Resurrection Thursday, July 16 2009.

• ÍN A PERSON'S LIFE, there's always some place that possesses them, I figure, some place that owns a chunk of your soul, and a person cannot dispute it or escape it, not even in her sleep.