num_pages: 272
description: For readers of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie and The Turner House an intimately told story about a woman living by her own rules and the rural community that struggles to understand her.Azalea Knot Centre is determined to live life as she pleases. Let the people of West Mills say what they will; the neighbors gossip wont keep Knot from what she loves best: cheap moonshine nineteenth-century literature and the company of men. And yet Knot is starting to learn that her freedom comes at a high price. Alone in her one-room shack ostracized from her relatives and cut off from her hometown Knot turns to her neighbor Otis Lee Loving in search of some semblance of family and home. Otis Lee is eager to help. A lifelong fixer Otis Lee is determined to steer his friends and family away from decisions that will cause them heartache and ridicule. After his failed attempt as a teenager to help his older sister Otis Lee discovers a possible path to redemption in the chaos Knot brings to his doorstep. But while hes busy trying to fix Knots life Otis Lee finds himself powerless to repair the many troubles within his own family as the long-buried secrets of his troubled past begin to come to light.Set in an African American community in rural North Carolina from 1941 to 1987 In West Mills is a magnificent big-hearted small-town story about family friendship storytelling and the redemptive power of love.
language: English
title: In West Mills
publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing