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Author Childers, Sarah Beth, 1982-

Title Shake terribly the earth : stories from an Appalachian family / Sarah Beth Childers
Published Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (215 pages)
Series Race, ethnicity, and gender in Appalachia
Ohio University Press series in 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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Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 18, 2013)
Subject Childers, Sarah Beth, 1982-
Childers, Sarah Beth, 1982- -- Family
Appalachians (People) -- Social life and customs
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays.
Appalachians (People) -- Social life and customs
Authors, American
Families
Social conditions
SUBJECT Appalachian Region -- Religious life and customs
Appalachian Region -- Social conditions
Subject Appalachian Region
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780821444689
0821444689
0821420623
9780821420621
Other Titles Essays. Selections
Stories from an Appalachian family