num_pages: 272
description: In Michael Farris Smith's latest riveting epic a young woman returns home with her child to her ghost-haunted father while a religious extremist hunts the stormridden territory to find the girl who may be the region's savior. (Laird Hunt National Book Award-nominated author of Zorrie and Neverhome ) There was no rising from the dead and there was no hand to calm the storms and there was no peace in no valley. In the hurricane-ravaged bottomlands of South Mississippi where stores are closing and jobs are few a fierce zealot has gained a foothold capitalizing on the vulnerability of a dwindling population and a burning need for hope. As she preaches and promises salvation from the light of the pulpit in the shadows she sows the seeds of violence. Elsewhere Jessie and her toddler Jace are on the run across the Mississippi/Louisiana line in a resentful return to her childhood home and her desolate father. Holt Jace's father is missing and hunted by a brutish crowd and an old man witnesses the wrong thing in the depths of night. In only a matter of days all of their lives will collide and be altered in the maelstrom of the changing world. At once elegiac and profound Salvage This World journeys into the heart of a region growing darker and less forgiving and asks how we keep goingwhat do we hold ontoin a land where God has fled. Garden &amp; Gun Top Reads of 2023  Bibliolifestyle Best Literary Fiction of 2023  Southern Living Southern Writers to Read Right Now
language: English
title: Salvage This World
publisher: Little, Brown and Company