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Clay's quilt : a novel / by Silas D. House.

ISBN: 1565123077
ISBN: 0345450698
ISBN: 9781565123076
Physical Description: 292 pages ; 21 cm
Publisher: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2001.

House, Silas, 1971- (author).

Summary:

, House takes us to Free Creek, Kentucky, where a motherless young man forges his path to adulthood, surrounded by ancient mountains and his blood relatives and adopted his Aunt Easter tied to her faith and foreboding nature; his Uncle Paul, the quilter; the wild girls Evangeline and Alma; and a fiddler whose music calls to Clay’s heart. As he struggles to stitch up the void created by his mother’s death, Clay pieces together his own life’s quilt, all masterfully wrought by House. Blair brings this novel into a beautiful new paperback edition, along with two other Silas House novels, A Parchment of Leaves and The Coal Tattoo . The three novels, which share a common setting and some characters, are companion novels. They may be read individually, in any order, but collectively, they form a rich tableau of life in rural mountain Kentucky in the last century.