Where You Are From

"When a North Carolina milltown loses its factory, it goes down hard. And if that's where you're from, you have to decide whether you're going down with it. Nelson follows the benighted residents of Tucker, N.C. with an eye that misses nothing, in a gorgeous prose at once elegiac and humane without the slightest hint of sentimentality. Add this book immediately to Appalachian Literature's highest shelf."