Sidle Creek stories

"In Sidle Creek, McIlwain skillfully interrogates the myths and stereotypes of the mining, mill, and farming towns where she grew up. With stories that take place in diners and dive bars, town halls and bait shops, McIlwain's writing explores themes of class, work, health, and trauma, and the unexpe...

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Main Author: McIlwain, Jolene (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Brooklyn : Melville House, 2023.
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Summary:"In Sidle Creek, McIlwain skillfully interrogates the myths and stereotypes of the mining, mill, and farming towns where she grew up. With stories that take place in diners and dive bars, town halls and bait shops, McIlwain's writing explores themes of class, work, health, and trauma, and the unexpected human connections of small, close-knit communities. All the while, the wild beauty of the natural world weaves its way in, a source of the town's livelihood--and vulnerable to natural resource exploitation"--
Physical Description:xi, 242 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:9781685890414
1685890415
Author Notes:Jolene McIlwain's fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and appeared in numerous literary journals, and in 2019's Best Small Fictions Anthology. Her work was named finalist for 2018's Best of the Net, Glimmer Train's and River Styx 's contests, and was a semifinalist in Nimrod 's Katherine Anne Porter Prize. She's taught literary theory/analysis at Duquesne and Chatham Universities and worked as a radiologic technologist. She was born, raised, and currently lives in a small town in the Appalachian plateau of Western Pennsylvania.