Look Back All the Green Valley

The Poet Laureate of North Carolina offers a novel of a man who returns to his small Appalachian hometown and unearths a family mystery.

Jess Kirkman returns to the North Carolina mountain town of his boyhood to be with his ailing mother and finally settle the family's accounts after the death of his father ten years ago. Cleaning out his father's secret work room reunites him with the irrepressible Joe Kirkman and leads him to make new discoveries—in the dusty room he finds an unusual machi...