Lately, the news out of rural Appalachia has not been good: a train derailment, toxic chemicals, the opioid epidemic. In contrast to all of that, Jolene McIlwain has written a stunning new collection of short fiction that presents a region known for hunting, fishing, fracking and Rolling Rock beer in all of its tender and terrifying complexity.
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