Flat Land

In her debut and final collection, Marilyn K. Moody's Gothic sensibility delivers mystery as it brings the reader into a complex and dangerous Midwestern landscape. Unique to this work is the way Moody portrays the child's point of view. Flat Land is a construct of extremes: heat and cold, silence and sound, abundance and poverty. The trauma of the family looms despite its many caregivers: mother, father, siblings, friends, uncles, and aunts. Filled with organic imagery-mourning doves, quai...