The Half-Life of Home
a novel by Dale Neal
This profoundly moving, elegiac novel gives full voice to a lost place and, in its way, a lost culture. The Half-Life of Home is a book readers will find hard to forget.
Ron Rash, Author of Serena and The Cove
This novel will stay with me. It gets into the inner workings — and shadows – of so many people and ends up being the story not only of “the democracy of the dead” but of a particular place “in a world that is never ending.”
Gail Godwin, Author of A Southern Family
Ron Rash, Author of Serena and The Cove
This novel will stay with me. It gets into the inner workings — and shadows – of so many people and ends up being the story not only of “the democracy of the dead” but of a particular place “in a world that is never ending.”
Gail Godwin, Author of A Southern Family
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The Half-Life of Home is the story of a particular place and time, and of the intense bonds of family and community in a time of wrenching change, environmental threat. Told in a voice both authentic and enthralling, with vivid and knowing detail, the novel is part lament, part celebration, by turns painful and inspiring, and real as the morning sun.
Robert Morgan Author of The Road From Gap Creek Beaverdam is a hard place to leave behind, and a harder place to stick to. In his second novel, Dale Neal takes an ordinary family in a mountain town, then cracks open their ordinary aspirations with the memory of a hardscrabble history. This book broke my heart, and left me haunted by mountain people.
Marjorie Hudson Author of Accidental Birds of the Carolinas |
Published by Casperian Books |