“Where does the road to ruin start?”

This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is written as a recovery journal by a young man in Appalachia who was born to a single mother experiencing addiction. It’s the story that author Barbara Kingsolver wanted to write for years because every family she knows in her part of Appalachia has lost … Read More

“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.”

Because we all make questionable decisions from time to time, it’s only natural to wonder if we are our own worst enemy, or if we are the hero in our life, or something in between. Many memoirs begin with this question.  However, this book is not a memoir: it’s a … Read More