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Brier Country: Stories from Blue Valley by Elaine Fowler Palencia (review)

Brier Country: Stories from Blue Valley by Elaine Fowler Palencia (review) NEW APPALACHIAN BOOKS OPINIONS AND REVIEWS Elaine Fowler Palencia. Brier Country: Stories from Blue Valley. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2000. 165 pages, $17.95 paper. In 1993, during one of his many lectures on Appalachian literature, Jim Wayne Miller encouraged his audience to compare the new short stories collected in Chris Offutt's Kentucky Straight to those in Elaine Fowler Palencia's Small Caucasian Woman. Stories in both collections were located in similar Appalachian communities, based on the authors' hometowns near Morehead in Rowan County, Kentucky. Although characters in both collections used the term "Hidy" to greet menacing forces charging the dark and violent ways of the men who live on the ridgetops and in the hollers of his fictional community, one another, that is where their similarities ended. With his nucleus of Offutt created a wake of literary controversy among his Appalachian readers. Meanwhile, Palencia, like her stories, remained quietly committed to her fictional community of "Blue Valley, the county seat of Moore county in eastern Kentucky," where "[bjehind every story whispers another story." Picking up where Small Caucasian Woman left off, Palencia resumes her short story cycle in this new collection. As the epigraph explains, Brier Country takes http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Brier Country: Stories from Blue Valley by Elaine Fowler Palencia (review)

Appalachian Review , Volume 28 (2) – Jan 8, 2000

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NEW APPALACHIAN BOOKS OPINIONS AND REVIEWS Elaine Fowler Palencia. Brier Country: Stories from Blue Valley. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2000. 165 pages, $17.95 paper. In 1993, during one of his many lectures on Appalachian literature, Jim Wayne Miller encouraged his audience to compare the new short stories collected in Chris Offutt's Kentucky Straight to those in Elaine Fowler Palencia's Small Caucasian Woman. Stories in both collections were located in similar Appalachian communities, based on the authors' hometowns near Morehead in Rowan County, Kentucky. Although characters in both collections used the term "Hidy" to greet menacing forces charging the dark and violent ways of the men who live on the ridgetops and in the hollers of his fictional community, one another, that is where their similarities ended. With his nucleus of Offutt created a wake of literary controversy among his Appalachian readers. Meanwhile, Palencia, like her stories, remained quietly committed to her fictional community of "Blue Valley, the county seat of Moore county in eastern Kentucky," where "[bjehind every story whispers another story." Picking up where Small Caucasian Woman left off, Palencia resumes her short story cycle in this new collection. As the epigraph explains, Brier Country takes

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Appalachian ReviewUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Jan 8, 2000

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