Jordan Dotson

The Ballad of Falling Rock (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Dotson's sentences crackle on every page and are infused with a joy and love for the region and its people. This heartbreaking and tender debut is not to be missed." Sybil Baker, author of Apparitions

Truth told, folks still ask if Saul Crabtree sold his soul for the perfect hymn. If he sold it to angels or devils. A Bristol newspaper once asked: "are his love songs closer to heaven than dying?" Others wonder how he wrote a song so sad, everyone who heard it died of a broken heart.

Yet, more than anything else folks ponder in the town of Trinity, one question lingers: why did this angel-toned preacher's son, just as his fame seemed ready to light the Appalachian nightsky forever, disappear completely?

In 1938, the decisions Saul makes will alter his family's story for generations. He and his eerily talented descendants ignite religious fear throughout Red Pine County. They navigate chapels, decaying sanatoriums, high school hallways, and a lingering myth from their Cherokee heritage that follows them wherever they go.

In the end, however, it's Saul's precocious grandson, Eli, who must find answers to these heartbreaking questions, who must enter this world rich in music and voices, where people die to hear the unspoken, and salvation is only found in the not-yet sung.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: BHC Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781643973661
• Artikelnr.: 72417919

Autorenporträt

Jordan Dotson is an award-winning author, musician, and literary translator whose work has been featured in numerous publications and anthologies throughout the US and Asia.Born in Appalachian Virginia, he moved to China in 2005 to study classical poetry and folk music. Over fourteen years in Asia, he worked as a journalist, musician, writing teacher, and college admissions counselor, and eventually earned his MFA in Fiction from City University of Hong Kong. His lone co-written screenplay won the Jury Award in Narrative Shorts at more than thirty film festivals worldwide, and though he now resides in Boston, Jordan still considers Southwest Virginia home.