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AN APPAL ACHIAN HERITAGE INTERVIEW WITH JESSE DONALDSON ’m drawn to Kentucky not because it’s some Shangri-La but because it is a Icomplicated place,” says Jesse Donaldson, author of the recent novel The More They Disappear and a native of the Commonwealth who left to attend college in Texas. Now living with his wife and daughter across the country in Oregon, he has found himself drawn back to Kentucky but reluctant to uproot his family. 68 This internal crisis was the impetus for his acclaimed memoir On Homesickness: A Plea, conceived as a letter to his wife begging to go home. Published in 2017 by Vandalia Press, the book examines the difficulty of change for a young family while offering a glimpse into Kentucky’s complex geographic and social history. Themes of homesickness, religion, and leaving versus staying permeate the memoir, providing readers with a deeply felt portrait of Donaldson’s plight. Following a recent book tour that brought him to every one of Kentucky’s 120 counties, Donaldson spoke to Appalachian Heritage about how his struggles with homesickness have influenced his writing, his research and writing processes, and the complexities of Kentucky history and his relationship to his home state. ■
Appalachian Review – University of North Carolina Press
Published: May 27, 2019
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