BOOKS - The Barn: A Short Story
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229868
229868
The Barn: A Short Story
Author: Erin Wilcox
Year: January 17, 2017
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 280 KB
Language: English
Year: January 17, 2017
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 280 KB
Language: English
A timely piece of Americana for readers of literary fiction and the Southern gothic genre, and "The Barn and " paints a hauntingly vivid picture of a country and a man divided. Half the proceeds from this project are being donated to the NAACP.When George lost his wife, it nearly killed him. Now he has also lost his son. His son's widow, an African American woman, finds George in a state of agitation when she arrives to buy the family farm, to save it from foreclosure. George resists Kanita's help, seeing her offer as a ploy to take control of the ranch. When an accident forces him to share space with Kanita, George is forced to confront his wife's legacy and the prejudice that has defined his family's past, to choose between nostalgia and the future.Praise for and "The Barn and " by Erin Wilcox and "A story full of poetry for the senses and the soul. We are transplanted to a farm and entangled in the inner struggles of a man whose prejudice could disconnect him from his way of life and possibly his unborn grandchild. Wilcox's thoughtful writing gracefully unfolds the story, pulling us into the heart and soul of humans at their worst and their best. and " - Linda D. Addison, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of How to Recognize a Demon Has Become Your Friend and "Wilcox crafts an iconic, timeless rural heartland in which the forces of repression and hate compete with the opportunity for change, love, and transfiguration. On farm beset by grief and tragedy, deaths, births, betrayals, and injuries of body and mind, two young women offer a bigoted, isolated old man a lifeline of connection that he least expects. Wilcox's clear yet incantatory prose gathers her readers into a compassionate, conflicted tale of confined lives, trapped minds, and the consequences of hate - her command over the language of loss and grief guides the story through an eternal American landscape that is familiar, and yet decidedly new." - Quintan Ana Wikswo, author of The Hope of Floating Has Carried Us This Far (Coffee House, 2015) and "A beautifully wrought story about racism, not from a political or social perspective, but from a personal and intimate one. Lifelong farmer, George, stubbornly refuses to have anything to do with his daughter-in-law Kanita, despite the bond of blood his new grandchild has created between them. What he sees as virtues - loyalty to his dead wife, to old ways, to tradition - are the very things that lock him into the illusion of distance between himself and the young woman. 'The Barn' poignantly illustrates the tenacity of racism and how insidiously it taps into the fears that separate human beings - a fear so powerful that it trumps the connection between two people who have loved the same person and who both mourn his loss. and " - Abigail Samoun, Co-founder, Red Fox Literary
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