Strange birds in the tree of heaven
a novel
by Karen Salyer McElmurray
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"In Karen Salyer McElmurray's debut novel, we are invited to explore the boundaries between beliefs, desires, obsessions, and madness. Set in Mining Hollow, Kentucky, we meet Ruth Blue Wallen; her husband, Earl; and their son, Andrew. Ruth longs to know God, the only escape she can find in a world that has shown her spiritual, emotional, and sensual defeat. Earl yearns for the music-making of his past, now forgone in order to make a living as a coal miner.
Andrew desires the love of a boyhood friend, an expression of love considered sinful in rural Kentucky. And, with the divinely inspired yet tormenting help of his mother, in a world of deeply and tragically conflicting desires, Andrew must choose to live or die - he must choose an uncertain love or nothing at all."--BOOK JACKET.
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Parent and adult child, Fiction, Mothers and sons, Parent and adult child -- Fiction, Fiction, family life, Fiction, historical, Fiction, psychological, Mothers and sons, fiction, Kentucky, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Coal mines and mining, Gay men, Rural conditionsPlaces
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Strange birds in the tree of heaven: a novel
2004, University of Georgia Press
in English
0820326674 9780820326672
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Strange birds in the tree of heaven: a novel
1999, Hill Street Press
in English
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1892514249 9781892514240
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