November Mourns

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Synopsis
Two years ago Shad Jenkins went to prison for assaulting his sister’s attacker. Now he has returned to the southern mountain town of Moon Run Hollow, only to find that Megan is dead. No one knows how she died–or why she was found on Gospel Trail Road, a dirt path leading up to the gorge high above the Chatalaha River, where victims of yellow fever were once brought to die. Navigating a world filled with abnormal children and clandestine snake handlers, one that is slowly being poisoned by illegal moo...
Copyright:
2005

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9780553901542
Related ISBNs:
9780553587203
Publisher:
Bantam
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Tom Piccirilli
Adult content:
Yes
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Horror, Literature and Fiction
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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Gloom, despair, and agony! November Mourns puts the goth in "southern gothic." Piccirilli is a good writer, and his ability to create a foreboding atmosphere is on full display. His mythical southern town is full of cliches, though: moonshine, meth, mental illness, children with over-the-top birth defects, whacked-out religion, a clan of mysterious hill-people who live down a dirt road you're not supposed to travel, etc. If you're okay with all that, by all means, read on. Me, I found it a little tedious, from a writer about whom I'd heard such high praise. If the parade of tropes, and the relentlessly glum mood weren't enough, there's a bit of supernatural stuff going on, spirits and "haints" and what-all. The perfect soundtrack would be performed by the alt-country duo Those Poor Bastards. I dunno, a good book if you like this kind of thing, and you know what you're getting. Just not my bag, I suppose.