Imagine the relationship triangle from “East of Eden” and set it deep in the Appalachian Mountains. But when Faith started acting strange, Shelly couldn’t avoid the past-not anymore.Ĭritically acclaimed, award-winning author Ann Hite beckons readers back to the Depression-era South, from the saltwater marshes of Georgia’s coast to the whispering winds of North Carolina’s mystical Black Mountain, in a mesmerizing gothic tale about the dark family secrets that come back to haunt us. Shelly tried to ignore the haints that warned her Faith’s tyrannical father, Pastor Dobbins, was a devil in disguise. But they had more in common than she knew. Shelly Parker never much liked Faith Dobbins, the uppity way that girl bossed her around. Told in the stunning voices of five women whose lives are inextricably bound when a murder takes place in rural Depression-era North Carolina, Ann Hite’s unforgettable debut spans generations and conjures the best of Southern folk-lore-mystery, spirits, hoodoo, and the incomparable beauty of the Appalachian landscape.įrom the author of the “wonderfully crafted” (San Francisco Book Review) Ghost on Black Mountain comes a haunting gothic novel set in the Depression-era South about two young women who form an unlikely alliance when the spirit of a dead woman takes up residence in their home. One way or another, Hobbs would get what was coming to him. That mountain was haunted, and soon enough, Nellie would feel it too. Folks told Nellie to get off the mountain while she could, to go back home before it was too late. Nellie Clay married Hobbs Pritchard without even noticing he was a spell conjured into a man, a walking, talking ghost story. ONCE A PERSON LEAVES THE MOUNTAIN, THEY NEVER COME BACK, NOT REALLY. Yesterday we posted an in depth interview with the author ( read it here), and today we are highlighting her fictional series. This is day 2 of our week-long Virtual Event for Georgia author Ann Hite’s latest book–a memoir titled Roll the Stone Away.
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