Burning Bright

Winner of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, Burning Bright captures the complexities of Appalachia-a rugged, brutal landscape of exceptional beauty, promise, and suffering that serves as New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash’s muse. Spanning from the Civil War to the present day, Rash’s historical and modern settings are sewn together in a haunting patchwork of suspense and myth, populated by raw and unforgettable characters mined from the landscape.

“elegantly sophisticated work . . . enormously effective . . . another instance of Mr. Rash’s tactical precision . . . remarkable stories . . . Mr. Rash certainly knows how to rivet attention.”-Janet Maslin, New York Times