Our Book of the Month for August is The Burying Man by Cleudis Robbins and Janene E. Nielsen. This  work of fiction tells about Appalachia being full of ghosts. This is the story of one who was in the grave by her 10th birthday.

The hills and hollers of Appalachia can swallow a man let alone a little girl like Bud Grace. Born the daughter of coal miner and funeralizing preacher Mournful Grace, her life is her father’s story. The Bloody Harlan County Coal Wars are just getting cranked up. Appalachia’s natural world is under assault by industrialists who are after its minerals at any cost.

Mournful, the seventh son of a seventh son cursed with second sight, can see trouble coming and struggles to change the future, all the while knowing he has no power over it. Everything that’s coming is already in the past. In a desperate battle to save his beloved Evangline and their daughter Bud, he must wage his own war against enemies bent on his personal destruction.

Bud lays bare the mysterious beauty and intricate customs of a forgotten land, as she unravels Mournful’s tragic  tale—one of haunting poverty and unimaginable violence as two worlds collide.

The Burying Man is now available in paperback in our bookstore or it can be ordered online through our website.