Monsters in Appalachia: Stories Eileen Whitfield John Eckhardt is pastor and

John Eckhardt is pastor and overseer of Crusaders Ministries of Chicago

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Monsters in Appalachia: Stories Eileen Whitfield John Eckhardt is pastor andThe characters within these fifteen stories are in one way or another staring into the abyss. While some are awaiting redemption, others are fully complicit in their own undoing. We come upon them in the mountains of West Virginia, in the backyards of rural North Carolina, and at tourist traps along Route 66, where they smolder with hidden desires and struggle to resist the temptations that plague them. A Melungeon woman has killed her abusive husband