Southernmost
[United States] : Algonquin Books, 2018.
Format: Ebook
Description: 1 online resource (368 pages)
"Southernmost engages my most deeply hidden fears and hopes . . . I love this book, and for it, I love Silas House." -Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina Asher Sharp is willing to give up everything for what he believes in. Except his son. In the aftermath of a flood that washes away much of a small Tennessee town, evangelical preacher Asher Sharp offers shelter to two gay men. In doing so, he starts to see his life anew-and risks losing everything: his wife, locked into her religious prejudices; his congregation, which shuns Asher after he delivers a passionate sermon in defense of tolerance; and his young son, Justin, caught in the middle of what turns into a bitter custody battle. With no way out but ahead, Asher takes Justin and flees to Key West, where he hopes to find his brother, Luke, whom he'd turned against years ago after Luke came out. And it is there, at the southernmost point of the country, that Asher and Justin discover a new way of thinking about the world, and a new way of understanding love.In this stunning literary page-turner about judgment, courage, heartbreak, and change, bestselling author Silas House wrestles with the limits of belief, and with love and its consequences. Silas House is the author of five novels, including A Parchment of Leaves. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times and a former commentator for NPR's All Things Considered. House is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers and is the winner of the E. B. White Award, the Nautilus Award, the Appalachian Book of the Year, the Hobson Medal for Literature, and other honors. A 2018 Booklist Editors' Choice Pick One of Paste Magazine's "12 Best Novels of 2018" "An urgent and beautifully written literary thriller about a man on the run that explores themes like the pain of atonement and the necessity of reconciliation, being published at a time when understanding across cultural and political divides seems wider than ever." -Salon.com "In sly and subtle ways, House skillfully beckons readers to dig deep into their own hearts and minds." -Atlanta Journal-Constitution "House, evoking writers such as Rick Bass and Wendell Berry, serves up earnest, plainspoken characters nestled into lavishly drawn natural settings. He paints, too, an equally if less violently vivid portrait of Key West… He is that rare stylist on whose descriptions- incantations, really-one wishes to linger." -Garden Gun "A master storyteller, Silas House shows a keen understanding of the modern South wrestling with change." -Minneapolis Star-Tribune "Given all the stories we have of the South in print, this one is, in a quiet way, revolutionary." -Asheville Citizen-Times "Southernmost engages my most deeply hidden fears and hopes. Silas House has all the gifts of a passionate storyteller, and to this book he adds the heartfelt convictions of a man willing to voice what we so seldom see in print-the ways in which with all good intentions we can mess up and go wrong, and only later try to sort out how we can win our own redemption. I love this book, and for it, I love Silas House." -Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina "This beautifully crafted novel brims with a spirit of hopeful humanity as one man's effort to make himself a better person casts ripples in the world around him. " -Charles Frazier, author of Varina "Southernmost offers no easy conclusions about forgiveness, religion or moral courage. Rather, this novel weighs the high costs of confronting the way our beliefs evolve in response to our lives, as well as the costs of denying that evolution. But House also succeeds in telling a satisfying story-one that resonates beyond the issues of the day, toward something deeper and larger." -Knoxville News-Sentine
ISBN:
9781616208295
More Formats
Instant title available through hoopla.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.