A Place That Was Home
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
A chance encounter with a forgotten childhood friend makes a woman take stock of her own shortcomings through the years.
A rural family’s peaceful Sunday night is disrupted by a frightening, unexpected visitor.
A charming blind student brings a new perspective to an emotionally distant teacher.
A woman is eyewitness to a neighbor’s struggle with alcoholism and the tragic outcome of his problems.
These incidents and many others are captured in A Place That Was Home. Chronicling a Western North Carolina woman’s experiences from the 1960s to the present, the twenty-one personal essays in A Place That Was Home vividly depict a regional world in which families live, work, and worship and others suffer from dire circumstances.
A Place That Was Home invites the reader into this compelling world.
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- Documents the everyday details of mid-20th-century Southern life before they vanish.
- Delivers a poignant collection of essays and poems that function as a “literary map” of her life in Western North Carolina.
- Explores the “lost” North Carolina — the transition from a rural, manufacturing-based society to a modern, service-oriented one.
- Grandma’s Bed
- His Voice
- Patricia
- Watching Television
- Our Intruder
- Homesick
- Portrait in Chartreuse Satin
- Eclipse
- Salesgirl
- The Picture of Benjamin
- Something in the Music
- In My Car
- Jim
- Wild Man
- Pat
- Man with the Wagon
- Light in Darkness
- Charlie’s Knife
- Their Secret Meeting
- His Slice of Heaven
- Dancing with the Best of Them
- Lost Child
- I’m Not Anorexic
- Bee Stings
- A Place That Was Home