The remnants
By: by Robert Hill
Publisher: Forest Avenue Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9781942436157
Subjects: Country life; Secrecy; Farm life; Families; Fiction
Description: The town of New Eden, peopled with hereditary oddities, has arrived at its last days. As two near-centenarian citizens prepare for their annual birthday tea, a third vows to interrupt the proceedings with a bold declaration. The Remnants cartwheels rambunctiously through the lives of wood-splitters, garment-menders, and chervil farmers, while exposing an electrical undercurrent of secrets, taboos, and unfulfilled longings. With his signature wit and wordplay, Robert Hill delivers a bittersweet gut-buster of an elegy to the collective memory of a community.