First novel by a modern master of Southern fiction, this tale is reminiscent of Hardy's Return of the Native-set in rural twentieth-century Tennessee. Southern Classics Series.

Madison P. Jones is an assistant professor of Professional & Public Writing and Natural Resources Science at the University of Rhode Island where he directs the Digital Writing Environments, Location, and Localization (DWELL) Lab and coordinates the Science Writing & Rhetoric graduate certificate program. His research intersects the rhetoric of science and technology and environmental communication. His digital projects combine spatial rhetorics with locative media for community-engaged science communication, social justice, and environmental advocacy. His articles have appeared in journals such as Kairos, Communication Design Quarterly, Rhetoric Review, and Rhetoric Society Quarterly and have garnered recognition from ARSTM and CCCC/NCTE's Best Article Awards. For more, visit: madisonpjones.com.