Blood Kin & Other Strangers
Language: English
Published by Headline Books, Inc., 2008
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- Title
- Blood Kin & Other Strangers
- Author
- Patsy Evans Pittman
- Publisher
- Headline Books, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 092991578X
- ISBN 13
- 9780929915784
Award Winning Finalist National Best Book Awards 2008, USA Book News
Award Winning Stories and Poems from Appalachia
In Blood Kin and Other Strangers Patsy Evans Pittman explores that most intimate of mysteries, the family. Drawn from her Appalachian heritage, these short stories and poems of love and loss, revenge and redemption, deceit and murder are among today's best.
This carefully crafted collection features stark drama, gentle humor and surprise endings; and characters who will take you on a journey you won't soon forget.
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About the Author
Since then, her short stories and poems, many of which are included in this collection, have been published in FIRST for Women, Woman s World and Grit, among others, as well as in several anthologies. Her non-fiction has appeared in Guideposts Books, Cup of Comfort, Ideals, Country Woman, and others. She has won numerous awards from Writers Digest, West Virginia Writers, Midwest Writers, Alabama Writers Conclave and Barbour County Workshop, and received a 2007 Fellowship in Literature from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts.
Mrs. Pittman and her husband Stanley live in Vienna, West Virginia, within a few miles of her birthplace. Between them, they have six children and fourteen grandchildren.
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