Book description
If there’s a bad idea in Tugalo County, chances are that Mack and Marshall Dooley are behind it. When the brothers heist a snake-handling church’s money-laundering operation, things go south in a hurry.
This part of the north Georgia hills ain’t much, just hardscrabble folks trying to get by. It’s…
Why read it?
1 author picked A Violent Gospel as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is a recent indie-published novella, and it deserves as many readers as it can get.
Westmoreland writes Southerners who feel like cousins to my own characters, and he sets them within the hypocrisy of modern Southern religion in ways that are both comfortable and completely accurate.
The tight, pressurised novella form feels exactly right for his material.
From A. M.'s list on the truth about the American South.
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