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Synopsis
Tartt First Fiction Award This Ditch Walking Love tells the stories of a rural Alabama county on the Cumberland Plateau. A field row to pick through, a river bluff to jump from, or a drive out to Jick's to see his hellfire cars might serve up enough for the people who live here, looking for what they can't make full on their own. Money is scarce. Truth is limited. Desire is the only thing of worth.
Synopsis
Winner of theTartt First Fiction Award.
THE DITCH-WALKING LOVE took shape in the Murphees Valley section of the Cumberland Plateau in central Alabama. Where I live, ridges lift above ravines the creeks and small rivers have cut into being. And if you dig down in a field, the steel of a shovel or posthole digger will hit the chert in the soil, causing the ground to spark. That difficulty of breaking the land can be heard in the people here--we set flint to our words. Speaking this way is at the heart of THIS DITCH-WALKING LOVE.
Fiction. Short Stories.