Book description
Here in the Dark, the first collection from award-winning author Meagan Lucas, is a gritty genre blending wallop of short stories, set mostly in Southern Appalachia, that explore the female experience of lawlessness. In the tradition of Dorothy Allison and Bonnie Jo Campbell, Lucas tackles, with unsettling honesty: poverty, addiction,…
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1 author picked Here in the Dark as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Lucas writes with the intensity of a preacher and the precision of a surgeon. These interconnected stories cut deep into the hidden lives of working-class women in Appalachia, exposing the hard choices and private pains that rarely make headlines. Yet what binds these characters isn’t despair but defiance.
This collection is a gut-punch testament to the grit and grace of survivors.
From Sandra's list on rural noir haunted landscapes grief and resilience.
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