| Description |
1 online resource (215 pages). |
| Series |
Race, ethnicity, and gender in Appalachia
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| Contents |
O glorious love -- Shorn -- Through a Train window -- My dead-grandmother essay -- Scissors -- Ghost siblings -- Garbage-bag charity -- At his feet as dead -- Give 'em Jesus -- Hot girls in short skirts -- Shake terribly the earth -- November leaves -- Boat stories: three generations -- The Tricia has crashed -- Kite string. |
| Note |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 18, 2013). |
| Summary |
Sarah Beth Childers grew up listening to stories. She heard them riding to school with her mother, playing Yahtzee in her Granny's nicotine cloud, walking to the bowling alley with her grandfather, and eating casseroles at the family reunions she attended every year. In a thoughtful, humorous voice born of Appalachian storytelling, Childers brings to life in these essays events that affected the entire region: large families that squeezed into tiny apartments during the Great Depression, a girl who stepped into a rowboat from a second-story window during Huntington's 1937 flood, brothers who. |
| Subject |
Childers, Sarah Beth, 1982-
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Childers, Sarah Beth, 1982- -- Family.
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Appalachians (People) -- Social life and customs.
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Appalachian Region -- Religious life and customs.
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Appalachian Region -- Social conditions.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays.
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Appalachians (People) -- Social life and customs.
(OCoLC)fst00811519
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Authors, American. (OCoLC)fst00821764
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Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
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Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
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Appalachian Region. (OCoLC)fst01240092
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
Essays. Selections
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Stories from an Appalachian family |
| ISBN |
9780821444689 (electronic bk.) |
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0821444689 (electronic bk.) |
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9780821420621 |
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9780821420614 (hardback) |
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