If only the rain would come / Natalie Sypolt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sypolt, Natalie, author.

Standardized Title:

If only the rain would come (Compilation) http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/29ee64ff-bbc4-7e5d-cf25-6c0b1499bdab

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Appalachian Region--Fiction.

Appalachian Region.

Genre:

short stories.

Fiction

Novels

Short stories.

Physical Description:

187 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2026]

Summary:

"An unvarnished story about an Appalachian community-from the modern women who carve out an existence for themselves to the complicated men who upend their lives in various ways At the center of this gritty and compelling novel-in-stories is Hazel. A teacher at the local elementary school, Hazel is intelligent, introspective, and lonely-having been overlooked by her peers and judged by her family. When Hazel's secret lover, Walker, dies and his identical twin, Sam, comes home from Afghanistan looking just like the dead, Hazel's world is shaken. But her life appears the same to outsiders-having exchanged one married twin in her bed for another. As Hazel and Sam's relationship deepens, the community and their intertwined lives rise to the forefront: Andy, a teenager struggling with the death of his father; Rachel, an outsider concealing a shameful past; Gina, an adolescent girl searching for belonging in the wake of placing her child for adoption; and Sam, a returning veteran haunted by ghosts of the past. As the residents of Warm, West Virginia, cope with addiction, grief, poverty, and abandonment, Hazel must confront her own life choices and weigh their cost. Revealed through a brilliant chorus of voices with dialogue that sings off the page, Natalie Sypolt's If Only the Rain Would Come is unflinchingly honest and deeply human. Natalie Sypolt is the author of The Sound of Holding Your Breath (West Virginia). Her writing has appeared in Appalachian Review, Still: The Journal, Superstition Review, Paste, Willow Springs Review, and The Kenyon Review Online. Sypolt is the winner of the Glimmer Train New Writers Contest, the Betty Gabehart Prize, the West Virginia Fiction Award, and the Still fiction contest. She serves as a literary editor for The Anthology of Appalachian Writers, participates in Women of Appalachia (a juried reading series), and is former president of the Appalachian Studies Association. She is associate professor of English at Pierpont Community & Technical College in Fairmont, West Virginia"-- Provided by publisher.

Other Format:

Online version Sypolt, Natalie If only the rain would come

ISBN:

9781985903937

1985903938

OCLC:

1520218680

Publisher Number:

CIPO000341371