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At Home in the Heart of Appalachia

by O'Brien, John

  • ISBN: 9780394564517
  • ISBN10: 0394564510

At Home in the Heart of Appalachia

by O'Brien, John

  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
  • Publish date: 01/01/2004
  • ISBN: 9780394564517
  • ISBN10: 0394564510
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Description: At Home in the Heart of Appalachia is a blend of memoir, history, and reportage that explores the difficult relationship between an estranged father and son, as well as the effect that being "Appalachian" has had on both. It is also an in-depth portrait of Pendleton County, West Virginia, the "heart of Appalachia" for the author -- with 9,000 residents in 700 square miles of rolling green mountains and narrow valleys, it is one of the loveliest locations in America, with half of its land in pristine national forests that teem with wildlife.

Subsistence farming is vanishing in the county, and as it does, residents, who trace their ancestry to the 1750s, worry about losing a life they cherish and the social direction of their own community. A non-profit organization has determined to "advance mountain culture" taking as its mandate the backwardness of Appalachians. A vision of mythic Appalachia is what draws all the elements of the book together. In the end, O'Brien comes to terms with his father's life -- a man forced to leave his beloved Appalachia in order to provide for his family, rendering him, in the end, defeated -- and he comes to understand that he himself had to settle in Appalachia in order to reconnect with his father and to find his own soul.

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