Montani Semper... Snapshots From An Appalachian Family Album

The book's narratives, poems, and drawings evoke the beauty and tragedy of Appalachia and the betrayal of the region's natural wealth. The novella relates the troubled family chronicle of Ramona and Woody Mann, and the friend they know simply as the Greek. Woody's and Ramona's families have lived for generations in the same rural Appalachian farming and mining community, but their fortunes have declined with ill health and the shifting economics of the region. Only the aspirations of their ...