Going Over Home: A Search for Rural Justice in an Unsettled Land

"Going Over Home is a call that inspires the reader to stand shoulder to shoulder with family farmers in their daily struggle."—Willie Nelson

An intimate portrait of the joys and hardships of rural life, as one man searches for community, equality, and tradition in Appalachia

Charles D. Thompson, Jr. was born in southwestern Virginia into an extended family of small farmers. Yet as he came of age he witnessed the demise of every farm in his family. Over the course of his own life of farming, ...