You Can Go Anywhere: From the Crossroads of the World
"Georgia Green Stamper is a wonderfully original writer. She is to Kentucky what Bailey White is to Georgia -- unique in every way.  Humorous, perceptive, and poignant, her essays are perfectly crafted gems illuminating those little moments in life that make it worth living, reminding us to appreciate the present before it quickly passes away.  We are still smiling and mulling over her insights, long after we've read the last page."-- Gwyn Hyman Rubio, author ofIcy SparksandThe Woodsman's Daughter"This is very powerful writing . . . the language, rhythms, diction are so much of each piece, so much reinforce the subject matter -- a fine (and rare!) synergy.  Georgia Stamper has very engaging stories to tell, and a masterful facility with the nuanced language needed to tell them."-- Tony Crunk, author ofLiving in the Resurrection"Georgia Green Stamper's essays do that most important  thing that only the most accomplished writers are sometimes lucky to do: capture and preserve a place, a time, and its people. Stamper's eye is sharp, and her pen is doubly so. Here is a book brimming with poetry and wisdom."-- Silas House, author ofClay's QuiltandThe Coal Tattoo"The first time I heard Georgia Stamper read one of her pieces, I knew I had encountered an authentic voice, rooted in a place and its history and passionate to tell its stories -- unmistakably itself, but calling forth echoes of other true and impassioned voices I had read and heard. Most immediately, Georgia's fiction and essays made me think of Wendell Berry's writing. Like Wendell Berry's essays and novels, they were both native ground and portals into the mysteries of another place and time and the ultimately unknowable lives that make up our history and culture as Kentuckians and human beings."-- Leatha Kendrick, author ofHeart CakeandSecond Opinion