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Melville House
May 2023
On Sale: May 16, 2023
212 pages
ISBN: 1685890415
EAN: 9781685890414
Kindle: B0B9WGS34P
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Novella / Short Story | Fiction Family Life
"Sidle Creek is one of the best story collections
I’ve read in a long time." - Ron Rash, New York
Times bestselling author of Serena
Set
in the bruised, mined, and timbered hills of Appalachia in
western Pennsylvania, Sidle Creek is a tender,
truthful exploration of a small town and the people who live
there, told by a brilliant new voice in fiction.
In Sidle Creek, McIlwain skillfully interrogates the
myths and stereotypes of the mining, mill, and farming towns
where she grew up. With stories that take place in diners
and dive bars, town halls and bait shops, McIlwain’s
writing explores themes of class, work, health, and trauma,
and the unexpected human connections of small, close-knit
communities. All the while, the wild beauty of the natural
world weaves its way in, a source of the town’s
livelihood – and vulnerable to natural resource
exploitation.
With an alchemic blend of taut
prose, gorgeous imagery, and deep sensitivity for all of the
living beings within its pages, Sidle Creek will
sit snugly on bookshelves between Annie Proulx, Joy
Williams, and Louise Erdrich.
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