Robert Morgan's fiction is "about people who have a deep sense of themselves, who were not created by a huge and complicated society but by a small, simple one in which individual character sprouted slowly and in trial bloomed... wise, eloquent."

Robert Morgan has long been one of this country's finest poets. Now he shows that his hand is just as steady in fiction.

Reminiscent of James Dickey- bearing the same naturalistic marks of clear, clean prose and often disturbing imagery... Morgan casts a stark story peopled with real, believable, and honest characters.

Morgan writes with an enviable clarity that makes personalities, issues and event come alive on the page.

The poet laureate of Appalachia.