Rubble masonry / Rose McLarney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McLarney, Rose, 1982- Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Appalachian Region.

American essays.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

ix, 150 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2026]

Summary:

"Diverse content and innovative form construct a book that explores the place in which the author finds herself as a woman from the mountain South--in history, national dialogues, public spaces, the natural world, and lineages that extend beyond an individual's life on earth. The book offers a nuanced perspective on the complexity of Appalachia and other southern regions. Stones and geology provide the bedrock on which this wide-ranging collection stands, with gravestones, monuments, erosion, and the marks we may leave or fail to make as unifying themes. The essays' subjects and sources include vernacular architecture and the endangered Cherokee language, the land lotteries that redistributed Native lands and orphanage records, past gynecological practices and soil left infertile by plantation agriculture, the reintroduction of elk and the reemergence of a river from under the Atlanta airport, and more. Connections, both conceptual and emotional, are created by the prose's braided and leaping structures and the personal narratives that McLarney shares, such as old family stories about her grandfather's career as an undertaker and forward-looking reflections on her experience of forming a transracial family as an adoptive mother. Written with a poet's attention to music and image, Rubble Masonry interleaves flash essays alongside extended meditations that critique assumed truths and confront mortality. McLarney's new collection provides further proof of the "life-affirming and refreshing" writing that Publishers Weekly celebrated for finding "beauty in simplicity and experience.""-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version McLarney, Rose Rubble masonry

ISBN:

9780807185896

0807185892

OCLC:

1547894864