{"product_id":"walk-till-the-dogs-get-mean-meditations-on-the-forbidden-from-contemporary-appalachia-9780821421680","title":"Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean: Meditations on the Forbidden from Contemporary Appalachia","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWalk Till the Dogs Get Mean, \u003c\/i\u003e Adrian Blevins and Karen Salyer McElmurray collect essays from today's finest established and emerging writers with roots in Appalachia. Together, these essays take the theme of silencing in Appalachian culture, whether the details of that theme revolve around faith, class, work, or family legacies. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In essays that take wide-ranging forms-making this an ideal volume for creative nonfiction classes-contributors write about families left behind, hard-earned educations, selves transformed, identities chosen, and risks taken. They consider the courage required for the inheritances they carry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Toughness and generosity alike characterize works by Dorothy Allison, bell hooks, Silas House, and others. These writers travel far away from the boundaries of a traditional Appalachia, and then circle back-always-to the mountains that made each of them the distinctive thinking and feeling people they ultimately became. The essays in \u003ci\u003eWalk Till the Dogs Get Mean\u003c\/i\u003e are an individual and collective act of courage. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eContributors: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Dorothy Allison, Rob Amberg, Pinckney Benedict, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Sheldon Lee Compton, Michael Croley, Richard Currey, Joyce Dyer, Sarah Einstein, Connie May Fowler, RJ Gibson, Mary Crockett Hill, bell hooks, Silas House, Jason Howard, David Huddle, Tennessee Jones, Lisa Lewis, Jeff Mann, Chris Offutt, Ann Pancake, Jayne Anne Phillips, Melissa Range, Carter Sickels, Aaron Smith, Jane Springer, Ida Stewart, Jacinda Townsend, Jessie van Eerden, Julia Watts, Charles Dodd White, and Crystal Wilkinson.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdrian Blevins\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Abingdon, Virginia. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eLive from the Homesick Jamboree, The Brass Girl Brouhaha, \u003c\/i\u003e and two chapbooks. She has received a Kate Tufts Discovery Award, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, and a Pushcart Prize, among others. She teaches at Colby College.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKaren Salyer McElmurray\u003c\/b\u003e's \u003ci\u003eSurrendered Child: A Birth Mother's Journey\u003c\/i\u003e was a National Book Critics Circle Notable Book. Her novels are \u003ci\u003eThe Motel of the Stars\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStrange Birds in the Tree of Heaven.\u003c\/i\u003e The recipient of a National Endowment from the Arts Fellowship, McElmurray teaches at West Virginia Wesleyan College.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ohio University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50845621518610,"sku":"9780821421680","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_87b7eede-1ba0-49dd-bd1d-7bd7b6e66f80.jpg?v=1737354499","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/walk-till-the-dogs-get-mean-meditations-on-the-forbidden-from-contemporary-appalachia-9780821421680","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}