Wade Hall is emeritus professor of English at Bellarmine University and served as the editor of the Kentucky Poetry Review for more than fifteen years. The author or editor of numerous books, including Conecuh People: Words of Life from the Alabama Black Belt and Passing for Black: The Life and Careers of Mae Street Kid, Hall lives in Louisville, Kentucky
"A book rich in incident and humor." -- Mountain Eagle
"Giles's most funny, and most favorite book is finally back in
print. How delighted followers will be to find this formerly
hard-to-find novel easily accessible." -- Appalachian Heritage
"In Shady Grove, Janice Holt Giles attempts to smash media
caricatures while portraying the ridge people honestly and
realistically, dirt and warts included. It is her final tribute to
her husband's people and culture, which she had learned to respect
and love. She took his old-timey people and their colorful
metaphors, folkspeech, and wild humor, combined them with generous
pieces of folk wisdom, and threaded them into a story as warm and
comfortable as a homemade quilt." -- Wade Hall, from the
Foreword
"Provides its readers with fun as well as an expose on the abuses
of the nation's poverty program, not just in Appalachia, but across
the nation." -- Bowling Green (KY) Daily News
"The culmination of her years of observing the region and its
people and one of her most brilliantly staged works." -- McCormick
(SC) Messenger
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