When a young girl’s father dies and her mother abandons her at her paternal grandparents’ home in Kentucky, no one helps her cope with the cloud of death that hovers over the family … until she wanders down to the neighbor’s barn. There, in an earthy, unlikely haven, vistas open to Spring-baby that transcend time and place and even death.
The Land of Silence (first published as All the Bad Things) tells the story in four distinct voices of a social outcast who falls prey to the relentless scorn of a small Pennsylvania town and the cruel lies of its teenage girls. How will Robbie Toe be forever changed by the malicious bullying of the townspeople? The final outcome is stunning and will haunt the reader long after the last page is turned.
COMING SOON!
Up On The Hill is a tale of how the past sometimes overlaps with the present and how the loyalty of a beloved dog is able to transcend time and death. Charlie Allen is well into the autumn of his life and carries with him a heavy sadness. Will he learn to lay down the burden despite his ailing wife, a barren teacher, and a killer roaming the Pennsylvania woods?
COMING SOON!
The Shade of a Thousand Trees: A Memoir of Fatherhood recounts how a series of men – some fathers, others father figures – spoke into the life of an individual whose delicate picture of fatherhood was shattered by an untimely death. With clear and candid language, this important and intimate chronicle celebrates fatherhood while never taking an eye off of what a world without it would be like, making this thoughtful recollection a story of our very age.