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    F*ckface: And Other Stories
    F*ckface: And Other Stories
    F*ckface: And Other Stories
    Audiobook6 hours

    F*ckface: And Other Stories

    Written by Leah Hampton

    Narrated by Sophie Amoss

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    F*ckface is a brassy, bighearted debut collection of twelve short stories about rurality, corpses, honeybee collapse, and illicit sex in post-coal Appalachia.

    The twelve stories in this knockout collection—some comedic, some tragic, many both at once—examine the interdependence between rural denizens and their environment.

    A young girl, desperate for a way out of her small town, finds support in an unlikely place. A ranger working along the Blue Ridge Parkway realizes that the dark side of the job, the all too frequent discovery of dead bodies, has taken its toll on her. Haunted by his past, and his future, a tech sergeant reluctantly spends a night with his estranged parents before being deployed to Afghanistan. Nearing fifty and facing new medical problems, a woman wonders if her short stint at the local chemical plant is to blame. A woman takes her husband’s research partner on a day trip to her favorite place on earth, Dollywood, and briefly imagines a different life.

    In the vein of Bonnie Jo Campbell and Lee Smith, Leah Hampton writes poignantly and honestly about a legendary place that’s rapidly changing. She takes us deep inside the lives of the women and men of Appalachia while navigating the realities of modern life with wit, bite, and heart.

    A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company

    Editor's Note

    Stunning debut…

    Leah Hampton’s stunning debut is a collection of 12 short stories that plunge readers into the lives of various Appalachian denizens. She creates a world of sharply drawn characters, from a soldier spending his last night with his estranged parents before deploying to Afghanistan to a woman, who while on a trip to nearby Dollywood, imagines a different life for herself.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateJul 14, 2020
    ISBN9781250755421
    Author

    Leah Hampton

    Leah Hampton is a graduate of the Michener Center for Writers and the winner of the University of Texas’s Keene Prize for Literature, as well as North Carolina’s James Hurst and Doris Betts prizes. Her work has appeared in storySouth, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Appalachian Heritage, North Carolina Literary Review, the Los Angeles Times, Ecotone, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. A former college instructor, Hampton lives in and writes about the Blue Ridge Mountains.

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