In the Heart
of the Hills
A Novel in Stories
From air raid drills in 1942 to the arrival of the Interstate highway in the mid-1950s, a boy, Freddy Lemley, shows us the American experience through the prism of his small West Virginia town. As he faces the struggles to come of age in the post-war years, so his town struggles to adapt to the changes that hover above it like a UFO.
What People Are Saying
“A great read…you do not have to be a West Virginian to connect with it.”
—Neil Bucklew
former president of West Virginia University“It will appeal to anyone open to recapturing the feel and experience of a long-gone time and place.”