Resurrection

by David J. Morris

A story of the rivalry between two mill-owning familes in which the main character, Sarah, rises out of poverty and becomes a force to be reckoned with. Her journey is hard with many a heartache, the deaths of two husbands and the burgeoning homosexuality of her only son - which results in blackmail. But Sarah is a formidable woman and overcomes every obstacle with the tenacity of one who will never be beaten.

Kindle Edition

First published May 17, 2014

About the author

Dave Morris is a San Diego-based writer, photographer and teacher. A former Marine infantry officer, he has covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for Slate, Salon and the Virginia Quarterly Review since 2003. His 2006 dispatch from Iraq, titled “The Big Suck: Notes from the Jarhead Underground’ was included in the Best American Nonrequired Reading series.

His writing has been featured on National Public Radio’s “Talk of the Nation,” and he continues to contribute to numerous print and digital publications including The New Yorker online, The Surfer’s Journal and Foreign Policy’s “Best Defense” blog.

In 2008, he was awarded a creative nonfiction fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as residencies at The MacDowell Colony and the Norman Mailer Writers Colony in Provincetown, Massachusetts. In 2009, he won the Staige D. Blackford Award for nonfiction writing from the Virginia Quarterly Review.