“Everybody in this book, the way they’re reacting to people being gay, is based totally on the reality of rural people I’ve witnessed.” “My main goal as a writer has always been to show rural people as they really are,” House said. Sitting on his front porch in Berea, where House is an assistant professor and National Endowment for the Humanities Chair in Appalachian Studies at Berea College, he talked about his ambitions for this sixth novel, his first set outside Appalachia. “Southernmost,” the latest novel by best-selling Kentucky author Silas House, was published June 5. It also is a well-written exploration of the complexities of faith, humanity and how hard it can be to change long-held beliefs. What follows is a fast-paced page-turner, a story of redemption with many twists, turns and surprises.
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