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Author Childers, Sarah Beth, 1982-

Title Shake terribly the earth : stories from an Appalachian family / Sarah Beth Childers.

Publication Info. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (215 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Race, ethnicity, and gender in Appalachia
Contents O glorious love -- Shorn -- Through a Train window -- My dead-grandmother essay -- Scissors -- Ghost siblings -- Garbage-bag charity -- At his feet as dead -- Give 'em Jesus -- Hot girls in short skirts -- Shake terribly the earth -- November leaves -- Boat stories: three generations -- The Tricia has crashed -- Kite string.
Summary Sarah Beth Childers grew up listening to stories. She heard them riding to school with her mother, playing Yahtzee in her Granny's nicotine cloud, walking to the bowling alley with her grandfather, and eating casseroles at the family reunions she attended every year. In a thoughtful, humorous voice born of Appalachian storytelling, Childers brings to life in these essays events that affected the entire region: large families that squeezed into tiny apartments during the Great Depression, a girl who stepped into a rowboat from a second-story window during Huntington's 1937 flood, brothers who.
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Subject Childers, Sarah Beth, 1982-
Childers, Sarah Beth, 1982- -- Family.
Childers, Sarah Beth, 1982-
Appalachians (People) -- Social life and customs.
Appalachians (People) -- Social life and customs.
Appalachians (People)
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Authors, American.
Chronological Term 20th century
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Appalachian Region -- Religious life and customs.
Appalachian Region.
Appalachian Region -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Added Title Essays. Selections
Stories from an Appalachian family
ISBN 9780821444689 (electronic book)
0821444689 (electronic book)
9780821420621
0821420623
9780821420621