Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley: Novellas and Stories-Fast Shipping

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Ann Pancake’s 2007 novel Strange As This Weather Has Been exposed the devastating fallout of mountaintop removal mining on a single West Virginia Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley, a follow–up collection of eleven astonishing novellas and short stories, Pancake again features characters who are intensely connected to their land––sometimes through love, sometimes through hate––and who experience brokenness and loss, redemption and revelation, often through their relationships to places under strip miners find themselvesvictimized by the industry that supported them; a family breaks down along generation lines overa fracking lease; children transcend addict parents and adult suicide; an urban woman must confront her skepticism about worlds behind this one when she finds bones through a mysterious force she can’t name.Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley explores poverty, class, environmental breakdown and social collapse while also affirming the world’s sacredness.

Ann Pancake’s ear for the Appalachian dialect is both pitch–perfect and respectful, that of one who writes from the heart of this firsthand knowledge of her rural place and her exquisite depictions of the intricacies of families may remind one of Alice Munro.