{"product_id":"over-the-plain-houses-paperback","title":"Over the Plain Houses - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJulia Franks\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A spellbinding story of witchcraft and disobedience.\" - NPR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn NPR 2016 Best Book\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Thomas Wolfe Award\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Southern Book Prize\u003cbr\u003eWinner of Georgia Author of the Year in Literary Fiction\u003cbr\u003eWinner of 2017 IPPY Gold in Literary Fiction\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2018 Townsend Prize for Best Georgia Fiction\u003cbr\u003eA 2016 Indie Next pick\u003cbr\u003eA Chicago Review of Books Best Fiction of 2016\u003cbr\u003eAn Atlanta Journal Constitution Best Southern Books of 2016\u003cbr\u003eA Bustle Great Appalachian Novel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's 1939, and the federal government has sent USDA agent Virginia Furman into the North Carolina mountains to instruct families on modernizing their homes and farms. There she meets farm wife Irenie Lambey, who is immediately drawn to the lady agent's self-possession. Already, cracks are emerging in Irenie's fragile marriage to Brodis, an ex-logger turned fundamentalist preacher: She has taken to night ramblings through the woods to escape her husband's bed, storing strange keepsakes in a mountain cavern. To Brodis, these are all the signs that Irenie--tiptoeing through the dark in her billowing white nightshirt--is practicing black magic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Irenie slips back into bed with a kind of supernatural stealth, Brodis senses that a certain evil has entered his life, linked to the lady agent, or perhaps to other, more sinister forces.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorking in the stylistic terrain of Amy Greene and Bonnie Jo Campbell, this award-winning debut by Julia Franks is the story of a woman intrigued by the possibility of change, escape, and reproductive choice--stalked by a Bible-haunted man who fears his government and stakes his integrity upon an older way of life. As Brodis chases his demons, he brings about a final act of violence that shakes the entire valley. In this spellbinding Southern story, Franks bares the myths and mysteries that modernity can't quite dispel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJulia Franks has roots in the Appalachian Mountains and has spent years kayaking the rivers and creeks of Tennessee, North Carolina, and West Virginia. She lives in Atlanta, where she teaches literature and runs loosecanon.com, a web service that fosters free-choice reading in the classroom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 19, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769891881248,"sku":"9781938235344","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6657873218ecffd10946dcde913995cb.webp?v=1780359082","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/over-the-plain-houses-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}